British Entanglement With Brazilian Slavery - Masters in Another Empire, C. 1822-1888

This book looks beyond the British Empire and the Slavery Abolition Act to focus on Brazil as the final frontier of Britain's centuries-long involvement with transatlantic slavery.

List of contents

Introduction; Ch. 1: 'Advocates and supporters': British Merchants and the Slave Trade to Brazil; Ch. 2: Lobbyists and Silent Beneficiaries: British Slaveholding in Brazil, Part I: 1808-1850; Part II: 1850-1888; Ch. 3: Human Collateral: British Banking and Brazilian Slavery; Ch. 4: Obfuscating Entanglement: Free and Slave Labour on the London and Brazilian Bank's Angélica Plantation, 1871-1881; Epilogue: Tracing the Legacies of British Entanglement with Brazilian Slavery; Conclusion: Slavery and Anti-Slavery in Brazil's British Century.

About the author

Joseph Mulhern is a historian of nineteenth-century Anglo-Brazilian relations and an honorary fellow of Durham University's Department of History.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Mulhern
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 01.12.2023, delayed
• EAN: 9781839984662
• ISBN: 978-1-83998-466-2
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: Anthem Brazilian Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Brazil, British Empire, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, HISTORY / Latin America / South America, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of the Americas, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Slavery, enslaved persons and abolition of slavery