摘要:Alagoas opens its historical narrative about itself from the silence on events clashing with the vision of "harmonious society" and “without economic or social contradictions" that wants to sign for posterity. Contradicting that image, attempts to consolidate a new group of central and local power, during the Regency period in wich political attitudes hurt customs rooted in clientelist practices, the prospect of acess to weapons and visibility of paths to show their dissatisfaction while elites fighting each other has created in the forests of Alagoas and Pernambuco the Cabanos led by Vicente Ferreira de Paula.