Esclavitud y nación en tiempos de Second Slavery: Brasil, siglo XIX

Rafael Bivar Marquese

doi:10.70794/hs.117929

Authors

Rafael Bivar Marquese Universidade de São Paulo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5566-3579

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.70794/hs.117929

Keywords:

Brazil, nineteenth-century, slavery, nation, Second Slavery

Abstract

Why did Portuguese America not fragment into multiple Republican political units after Brazil’s independence, as happened in Spanish America, maintaining its colonial territorial unity in the form of a Constitutional Monarchy? The question has long attracted the attention of scholars. One of the answers provided points to the interests linked to the transatlantic slave trade to Brazil. Mobilizing the Second Slavery concept, the article explores how the legacies of colonial slavery were rearticulated from 1808 onwards, crystallizing, with the Imperial Constitution of 1824, into a new national political arrangement.

Author Biography

Rafael Bivar Marquese, Universidade de São Paulo

Professor in the Department of History at the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters, and Human Sciences, University of São Paulo, Brazil. His research focuses on the topic of African slavery in the Americas. Author of, among other works, Slavery and Politics. Brazil and Cuba, 1790-1850 (The University of New Mexico Press, 2016), Os Tempos Plurais da Escravidão no Brasil. Essays on History and Historiography (Intermeios, 2020), and Reconstructing the Landscapes of Slavery. A Visual History of the Plantation in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World (The University of North Carolina Press, 2021). He is currently working on a book project on the global history of coffee and slavery.