Cabo Verde: entre uma civilização agrícola e uma civilização industrial e comercial (1822-1841)

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the different political discourses produced and reproduced by the political elites in Cape Verde, around which island would host the capital of the archipelago. It also aims to demonstrate the relevance of this discourse in the political mobilization of the islands of Santo Antao, Sao Vicente and Sao Nicolau against political and administrative centrality of the village of Praia, based on the creation of an industrial and commercial civilization in Mindelo, around the navigation. It also proposes to analyze and understand the political and economic arguments to justify the transfer of the government, as a special attention to the geographical centrality, foreign trade and the existence of safe harbor for shipping.