Escolarização na província da Parahyba do Norte: a organização da instrução pública primária (1840-1860)

We seek to enlighten the first years of North Parahyba province institutionalization process of public school and this movement relation with the provincial governments for the creation of classes of first letters. From the analysis of primary sources such as province presidents reports and documents separated from the instruction and using the concept of experience E.P. Thompson we collate the ideas linked to those documents with the text of two regulations approved in 1849. We conclude that such legislation contributed to the public primary instruction establishment as well as the discourse showed the concern with the school dissemination, especially considering the students families and teachers as the targets of the regulatory and civilizing action of the provincial government.