Joaquim Nabuco, British Abolitionists, and the End of Slavery in Brazil: Correspondence 1880-1905 (Institute of Latin American Studies) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1900039958 ISBN 13: 9781900039956

Publisher: University of London Press, 2009

Synopsis

A little-studied aspect of the struggle to abolish slavery in Brazil in the 1880s is the relationship between Joaquim Nabuco, the leading Brazilian abolitionist, and the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society in London.The correspondence between Nabuco and Charles Harris Allen, secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society, and other British abolitionists throughout the decade and beyond reveals a partnership consciously sought by Nabuco in order to internationalize the struggle. These letters provide a unique insight into the evolution of Nabuco's thinking on both slavery and abolition. At the same time, they offer a running commentary on the slow and (at least until 1887–88) uncertain progress of the abolitionist cause in Brazil.

About this title

About the Author:

Leslie Bethell is emeritus professor of Latin American history at the University of London and emeritus fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford. José Murilo de Carvalho is professor of history at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of London Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1900039958
• ISBN 13: 9781900039956
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 202
• Editor: Bethell Leslie, Carvalho Murilo De