Cipriano Barata

Barata was born in Bahia, Brazil in 1762.^[1] Barata graduated from the University of Coimbra, where he studied surgery, philosophy and mathematics and was introduced to Enlightenment ideas that were popular in academia at the time.

Together with professor Francisco Muniz Barreto and others, he was a member of the first Masonic lodge in Brazil, the "Knights of the Light", founded in Salvador in 1797. The following year, he attended the casting Bahia, being held by legal authorities afterward. Some^[who?] say that he was the editor of the Manifesto to the People from Bahia, which urged the people to revolt. He gained prominence as a member of a movement, Conjuração Baiana, that wanted independence for Brazil and the end of slavery. In 1800, he was arrested and released for his alleged involvement.^[1] After this point, he became a sugarcane farmer in the town of Abrantes (current Camaçari) and continued practicing as a doctor.

Barata fled to Portugal in 1832. Shortly after his arrival he started a newspaper called Sentinela da Liberdade (Sentinel of Liberty).^[1]

• LEITE, Renato Lopes. Republicans and Libertarians. Radical thinkers in Rio de Janeiro (1822). Rio de Janeiro: Brazilian Civilization, 2000.
• SODRÉ, Nelson Werneck. The history of the press in Brazil. Rio de Janeiro: Brazilian Civilization, 1966.
• Vianna, Hélio. Contribution to the History of the Brazilian Press (1812–1869). Rio de Janeiro: National Press, 1945. 664p.

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