Book contents
- The Boundaries of Freedom
- Afro-Latin America
- The Boundaries of Freedom
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Slavery and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
- Part I Law, Precarity, and Affective Economies during Brazil’s Slave Empire
- 1 The Crime of Illegal Enslavement and the Precariousness of Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
- 2 “Hellish Nurseries”
- 3 Agrarian Empires, Plantation Communities, and Slave Families in a Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Coffee Zone
- 4 Motherhood Silenced
- 5 The Abolition of Slavery and International Relations on the Southern Border of the Brazilian Empire, 1840–1865
- Part II Bounded Emancipations
- Part III Racial Silence and Black Intellectual Subjectivities
- Part IV Afterlives of Slavery, Afterwards of Abolition
- Bibliography
- Index
5 - The Abolition of Slavery and International Relations on the Southern Border of the Brazilian Empire, 1840–1865
from Part I - Law, Precarity, and Affective Economies during Brazil’s Slave Empire
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 March 2022
- The Boundaries of Freedom
- Afro-Latin America
- The Boundaries of Freedom
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Slavery and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
- Part I Law, Precarity, and Affective Economies during Brazil’s Slave Empire
- 1 The Crime of Illegal Enslavement and the Precariousness of Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
- 2 “Hellish Nurseries”
- 3 Agrarian Empires, Plantation Communities, and Slave Families in a Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Coffee Zone
- 4 Motherhood Silenced
- 5 The Abolition of Slavery and International Relations on the Southern Border of the Brazilian Empire, 1840–1865
- Part II Bounded Emancipations
- Part III Racial Silence and Black Intellectual Subjectivities
- Part IV Afterlives of Slavery, Afterwards of Abolition
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter uses documents and methods from both traditional political history and social history to argues that the origins of the Paraguayan War (1864–1870) can be identified in tensions surrounding the abolition of slavery in Uruguay in the 1840s and the definitive ban of the Atlantic slave trade to Brazil in 1850. These tensions were at play in the disputes over the consolidation of local nation-states and are central to an understanding of the historical process that fed into the Paraguayan War. By the early 1860s they would reach a point of no return. This argument places slavery and Black agency at the center of Brazil’s nineteenth-century international relations, breaking a silence carefully constructed by statesmen and diplomats of the Brazilian Empire.
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- The Boundaries of FreedomSlavery, Abolition, and the Making of Modern Brazil, pp. 128 - 160Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022