Analysis Of Destruction Of Brazilian Slavery By Robert Conrad

In the book Destruction of Brazilian Slavery, Robert Conrad breaks down the abolitionist movement into two major phases. After discussing these phases, Conrad then proceeds to describe significant events, key political figures, and the opinions of those who are both pro and anti-slavery. Conrad’s purpose is to describe the development of the abolitionist movement, but through a political lens. While he doesn’t specifically state this, it is apparent in his choice to strictly focus on what is occurring in government and the political perspective of certain influential people. This should have been specified by Robert Conrad, because someone using this book as for research would not be able to find much about how society as a whole reacted to this change in society. In the section entitled Action and Reaction, Conrad describes what abolitionist Nabuco’s goals that he wrote in O Abolicionismo. Other than naming other prominent abolitionist agreement, Conrad only describes “a powerful reaction of the former …show more content…
This conclusion way made with the idea that Conrad’s main focus of the political aspect of abolitionism in Brazil. The author provides sources that document the political opinions and decisions made during this time period about slavery in Brazil. The various types of sources include: autobiography, reports from different organized groups, newspaper articles written during the time of these events, and illustrations of slave-life, political figures that were mentioned, and documents. Also Conrad focuses heavily on the influence of Joaquim Nabuco. His use of Nabuco’s autobiography The Life of Joaquim Nabuco and his literary works Minha formação and O Abolicionismo gave insight on Nabuco and other abolitionist that he collaborated with. The illustrations of slave labor do not actually correlate with the discussion of abolitionist politics, however, they do provide an understanding of what slaves had to