 | The Sacred Cause: The Abolitionist Movement, Afro-Brazilian Mobilization, and Imperial Politics in Rio de Janeiro Subjects: Antislavery movements -- Brazil -- History -- 19th century; Blacks -- Brazil -- Politics and government -- 19th century; Slavery -- Brazil -- History -- 19th century; Brazil -- Politics and government -- 1822-1889; Brazil -- History -- Empire 1822–1889; No detailed description available for "The Sacred Cause". Jeffrey D. Needell is Professor of History and Latin American Studies at the University of Florida. He is the author of A Tropical Belle Epoque: Elite Culture and Society in Turn-of-the-Century Rio de Janeiro (1987) and The Party of Order: The Conservatives, the State, and Slavery in the Brazilian Monarchy, 1831-1871 (2006), and is the editor of Emergent Brazil: Key Perspectives on a New Global Power (2015). |
