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ABOLITIONISM: The Brazilian Antislavery Struggle (English and Portuguese Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Joaquim., Nabuco

Social Sciences

University of Illinois Press

Remarks of the Brazilian ambassador, Mr. Joaquim Nabuco, at the fourteenth annual banquet of the Lin

History

Americas

BiblioLife

<p>As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)</p>

Lincoln's centenary: speech of the Brazilian ambassador Joaquim Nabuco at the celebration in Washin

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Joaquim Nabuco, for more than three decades a dominant figure in the literary, intellectual and political life of Brazil, was born in Recife in the country's Northeast in 1849 and died in Washington in 1910. He was what we would now call a public intellectual, indeed given that he spent half his adult life in Europe and the United States a trans-national public intellectual and from a country on the periphery of the world system. Nabuco is best known as the inspirational leader of the campaign in the 1880s for the abolition of slavery in Brazil, which after abolition in the United States and Cuba was the last remaining slave state in the Americas. Eighteen months after slavery was finally ended in 1888 the Brazilian Empire was overthrown and Nabuco, a committed monarchist, believing--wrongly--that his public career was over (from 1899 until his death he was to serve the Republic with distinction as Brazilian minister in London and Brazil's first ambassador to the Washington), devoted himself in 'internal exile' to writing, including a series of newspaper articles on his education, his early intellectual development, his discovery of the world outside Brazil and his life as a young diplomat and politician. These articles, together with some later additions, were published as Minha Formacao (My Formative Years) in 1900. In twenty six chapters Nabuco examines (though not in chronological order): the first eight years of his life in Massangana, a sugar plantation in Pernambuco worked by slaves and his return there, as a student aged twenty, which he claimed determined his decision to devote himself to the abolition of slavery in Brazil; his education in the Law Faculties in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo; the influence of Walter Bagehot s The English Constitution (1867) on his political thinking; his introduction to French literature and history (besides Portuguese he wrote his first poems and plays in French); his first visit to Europe in 1873-4, primarily a Grand Tour of Italy and France but ending in London where, he wrote, he was touched by the beginnings of anglomania (he was to visit and reside in London on seven separate occasions during the next 20 year before his six years as Brazilian minister there); his two years (1876-8) as attache in the Brazilian legations in Washington and London; the beginning of his political career in Pernambuco, contesting and winning election to the Chamber of Deputies in 1878 at the age of 29 and becoming a self-styled 'English liberal in the Brazilian Parliament'; the influence of English and North American abolitionists on his thinking about slavery and abolition; and the eventually successful parliamentary struggle to end slavery. A concluding chapter ('The last ten years 1889-1899') briefly considers his life after the abolition of slavery and the fall of the Empire.

My Formative Years

World

Hurst & Co.

Joaquim Nabuco (1849-1910) foi um dos primeiros pensadores brasileiros a ver na escravidao o grande alicerce da nossa sociedade. Sendo ele um intelectual nascido e criado no ambiente da aristocracia escravista, a lideranca pela campanha da Abolicao nao so causa espanto por sua coragem e lucidez como faz de Nabuco um dos maiores homens publicos que o pais ja teve.A defesa da monarquia federativa, a campanha abolicionista, a atuacao diplomatica, a erudicao e o espirito grandioso do autor pernambucano sao apresentados aqui em textos do proprio Nabuco, nas elecao criteriosa e esclarecedora feita pelo historiador Evaldo Cabral de Mello, tambem responsavel pelo texto de introducao.

Essencial Joaquim Nabuco (Em Portugues do Brasil)

Penguin-Companhia

Joaquim Nabuco

Bem-te-vi

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ABOLITIONISM: The Brazilian Antislavery Struggle (English and Portuguese Edition)

Remarks of the Brazilian ambassador, Mr. Joaquim Nabuco, at the fourteenth annual banquet of the Lin

Lincoln's centenary: speech of the Brazilian ambassador Joaquim Nabuco at the celebration in Washin

Remarks of the Brazilian ambassador, Mr. Joaquim Nabuco, at the fourteenth annual banquet of the Lin

My Formative Years

Essencial Joaquim Nabuco (Em Portugues do Brasil)

Joaquim Nabuco