The Abolition of the Brazilian Slave Trade
The Abolition of the Brazilian Slave Trade
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GBPWhen at the beginning of the nineteenth century Britain launched her crusade against the transatlantic slave trade, Brazil was one of the greatest importers of African slaves in the New World. Negro slavery had been the cornerstone of the Brazilian economy and of Brazilian society for over 200 years and the slave population of Brazil required regular replenishment through the trade. In this detailed study Dr Bethell explains how during the period of Brazilian independence from Portugal, Britain forced the Brazilian slave trade to be declared illegal, why it proved impossible to suppress it for twenty years afterwards and how it was finally abolished. He covers a major aspect of the history of the international abolition of the slave trade and slavery and makes an important contribution to the study of Anglo-Brazilian relations which were dominated - and damaged - by the slave trade question for more than half a century.
Product details
February 2009Paperback
9780521101134
444 pages
216 × 140 × 25 mm
0.56kg
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- Maps
- Abbreviations
- 1. First steps towards abolition, 1807–1822
- 2. Independence and abolition, 1822–1826
- 3. Brazil and the slave trade, 1827–1839
- 4. Treaty negotiations, 1830–1839
- 5. The British navy and the mixed commissions, 1830–1839
- 6. The extension of Britain's powers, 1839
- 7. Britain and the slave trade, 1839–1845
- 8. Slave trade, slavery and sugar duties, 1839–1844
- 9. Lord Aberdeen's Act of 1845
- 10. The Aftermath of the Aberdeen Act
- 11. Changing attitudes and plans of action, 1845–1850
- 12. Crisis and final abolition, 1850–1851
- 13. The aftermath of abolition
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index.
