They Executed Only This Conspirator (Tiradentes, 1792)

Every Brazilian knows Tiradentes's face: long hair, long beard, a white robe. There's one problem: nobody painted him while he was alive, and he probably didn't look like that at all. The gold tax, a plot of rich poets and priests, a betrayal to pay off a debt, a queen's letter written in advance, the only man who paid with his life, and how a Republic built a hero a century later. CHAPTERS 0:00 A famous face 0:27 The tooth-puller 1:10 Gold and taxes 1:46 The plot 2:40 The betrayal 3:17 Three years of trial 3:36 The sentence 4:32 A hero for the Republic 5:03 The borrowed face 6:14 Your turn SOURCES Kenneth Maxwell, Conflicts and Conspiracies: Brazil and Portugal 1750-1808 (1973) José Murilo de Carvalho, A formação das almas (1990) en/pt.wikipedia, Tiradentes and Inconfidência Mineira Autos de Devassa da Inconfidência Mineira (Câmara dos Deputados edition)