Making Abolition Brazilian
British Law and Brazilian Abolitionists in Nineteenth-Century Minas Gerais and Pernambuco
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11192524 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Courtney J Campbell (0000-0002-8740-5646), Courtney Campbell (0000-0001-6918-6382, Abcam (United States), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 521-543 |
| Publication date | 2015-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Slavery and Abolition (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0144-039X • E-ISSN: 1743-9523 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0144039x.2015.1067976 |
| OpenAlex | W1786591049 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
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
Abolitionism · Art · Economic history · Nationalism · Outrage · Political science · Politics · Rhetorical question · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · History of Colonial Brazil · Law
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The Transatlantic Slave Trade to Bahia, 1582–1851
The Slave Trade to Pernambuco, 1561–1851
Slavery and the Demographic and Economic History of Minas Gerais, Brazil, 1720–1888
Myths and Lessons of Liberal Intervention
Strategies of Legal Change
A Culture of Colors
Brazilian Gold, Cuban Copper and the Final Frontier of British Anti-Slavery
The Independence of Brazil and the Abolition of the Brazilian Slave Trade
Liberdade
The Abolition of the Brazilian Slave Trade. Britain, Brazil and the Slave Trade Question, 1807-1869
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |