THE PEOPLE, WAR, FREEDOM: A POPULAR POLITICAL PROGRAM DURING THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE IN BAHIA (1822-1823).

The process of Independence of Brazil had in Bahia a chapter apart. Portuguese troops occupied the capital - Salvador - and remained there until July 2, 1823, when they retired after a long and still war, so that the Peace Army - formed by volunteers from Bahia and imperial troops and led by the Bahian elites - could liberate the city and finally the province joined the Brazilian Empire under the government of D. Pedro I. Within the war, however, authorities and owners had a concern, often greater than with the Portuguese, with the popular classes and their movement politics, being masters of a potential rebel based on a political experience constituted for decades. This article tries to identify the forms of popular participation during the war and its relation with a possible popular program inaugurated in 1798 in the Revolt of Búzios