Joaquim Nabuco, British Abolitionists and the End of Slavery in Brazil, edited by Leslie Bethell and José Murilo de Carvalho, reveals the little-studied relationship between Nabuco, the leading Brazilian abolitionist, and the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society during the struggle to abolish slavery in Brazil in the 1880s.

The correspondence between Nabuco and Charles Harris Allen, Secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society, and other British abolitionists throughout the decade and beyond reveals a partnership consciously sought by Nabuco in order to internationalise the struggle. These letters provide a unique insight into the evolution of Nabuco's thinking on both slavery and abolition and at the same time a running commentary on the slow and (at least until 1887-8) uncertain progress of the abolitionist cause in Brazil.

Leslie Bethell is Emeritus Professor of Latin American History at the University of London, Emeritus Fellow of St Antony's college, Oxford, Senior Research Fellow at the Centro de Pesquisa e Documentacao de Historia Contemporanea do Brasil, Fundacao Getulio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. He is an Honorary Research Fellow of the Institute for the Study of the Americas.

Jose Murilo de Carvalho is Professor of History at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters and the Brazililan Academy of Science.

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