O parlamentar do silêncio: atuação política do deputado Ibiapina na Assembleia Legislativa Brasileira (1834-1837).

Abstract

The studies on Priest Ibiapina address in their entirety the missionary life of the leader in the interior of the Northeastern backlands during the years 1860 to 1883, thus creating a gap in his social and political life before the missions. The activities he carried out during the years 1832 to 1853 are of the utmost importance in order to understand the reasons that made him choose to live in the priesthood and, later, in the interior of Brazil. He served as a teacher, a federal deputy, a police chief, a court of law, and a lawyer before being isolated for three years in Pernambuco and being ordained a priest. During this time he built a network of sociabilities that made him respected and well-liked in the major centers of nineteenth-century Brazilian society. In this sense, we aim to analyze the political trajectory of Ibiapina in the years 1834-1837, in order to problematize what were the actions and the parliamentary speeches of the future priest, considering that this was the activity that discouraged him to follow in the political career and especially public. We will refer to the New Political History, precisely to the studies of historians John Pocock and Quentin Skinner, who today are historiographical references for the investigations of New Political History.