Abstract
Already an old acquaintance of nineteenth-century Brazilian scholars, Francisco Gê Acaiaba Montezuma, Viscount of Jequitinhonha (1794-1870), constitutes a character that is still scarcely explored by historiography. In the times of the Empire, Jequitinhonha, a free man "of color", as it used to be said, walked through the world of politics and literature, with great strength. Even more, h…