Making Abolition Brazilian: British Law and Brazilian Abolitionists in Nineteenth-Century Minas Gerais and Pernambuco

Courtney Campbell

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Making Abolition Brazilian: British Law and Brazilian Abolitionists in Nineteenth-Century Minas Gerais and Pernambuco

Courtney Campbell

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This article compares two cases in which Brazilian abolitionists mobilized around a law passed in 1843 to prohibit British subjects, no matter where they resided, from owning slaves. Placing a case against a large British-owned gold mine in Minas Gerais alongside outcry against a Scottish widow who owned two slaves in Recife, the article argues that this law was used as a rhetorical tool to gain support for abolitionism and create public outrage against British slaveholders in Brazil at a moment of expanding public participation in abolitionism as a form of nationalism.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	521-543
Journal	Slavery and Abolition
Volume	36
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/0144039X.2015.1067976
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 4 Sept 2015

Keywords

British Abolitionism
Brazilian Abolitionism
Act for the More Effectual Suppression of the Slave Trade
Sociedade Nova Emancipadora
St. John d’el Rey Mining Company
Morro Velho
Abolitionist discourse

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