Politics e diplomacy: the foundation of Empire of Brazil, the convention of 1826, and the slave trade

• Grant number: 12/18967-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: November 24, 2012
• End date: March 23, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - History of Brazil
• Principal Investigator: Cecilia Helena Lorenzini de Salles Oliveira
• Grantee: Guilherme de Paula Costa Santos
• Supervisor: Cristina Nogueira da Silva
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Abstract

This research intends to reconstitute the context in which Cabinets from Rio de Janeiro, Lisbon and London played, defined, and conceived the legitimacy of Brazilian Empire in the former America's colonial regions. It especially seeks to analyze the diplomatic conferences related to the admission of Brazilian Empire's independence and the abolition of slave trade established by the Convention of 1826. Our hypothesis is that Government agents from Brazilian, Portuguese and British crowns didn't share equal conditions in the international circumstances in which diplomats played. Moreover, these circumstances were prepared discourses grounded by each ambassador in order to persuade or dissuade politic opponents as means to solve troubles or hurdle barriers staged in international meetings and internal dilemmas of each nation. (AU)