The Atlantic Slave Trade as Seen from the Consulate General of Brazil in New York, 1850–ca. 1860

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ID8950315
AuthorsGilberto Da Silva Guizelin (0000-0001-5208-8188, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume106
Issue2
Pages225-248
Publication date2025-12-30
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHispanic American Historical Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0018-2168 • E-ISSN: 1527-1900
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/00182168-12328642
OpenAlexW7117533409
LanguageEN
References cited7

This article utilizes Brazilian consular correspondence to illustrate how the formal government service dedicated to espionage organized by Brazilian imperial diplomats monitored US-based slave traders and shared information about their activities with other governments, particularly Britain's. I argue that by doing so, the Brazilian Empire aimed to prevent the reappearance in Brazil of the Atlantic slave trade, which had been made illegal in 1850. They also aimed to protect the Brazilian slave regime from international abolitionist pressure by framing slavery in Brazil as a purely domestic matter, given that Brazil no longer received enslaved people from Africa

Atlantic slave trade · Empire · Espionage · Framing (construction · Government (linguistics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History of Colonial Brazil

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