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A journey in Brazil : Henry Washington Hilliard and the Brazilian anti-slavery society /

Durham, Hilliard's biographer, provides background and context to the remarkable anti-slavery speech that Hilliard, a former slave owner and Confederate soldier, delivered at a banquet in Rio de Janerio in the fall of 1880.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Durham, David I.
Corporate Author: Bounds Law Library.
Contributors: Pruitt, Paul M., Jr. 1950-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa, AL : Bounds Law Library, University of Alabama School of Law, 2008.
Series:Occasional publications of the Bounds Law Library ; no. 6.
Subjects and Genres:
Hilliard, Henry W. > (Henry Washington), > 1808-1892.
Sociedade Brasileira contra a Escravidão.
Brazilian Anti-Slavery Society.
1800-1899
Diplomats > United States > Biography.
Slavery > Brazil > History > 19th century.
Antislavery movements > Brazil.
Diplomates > États-Unis > Biographies.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > Brésil.
Antislavery movements.
Diplomats.
Slavery.
Brazil.
United States.
collective biographies.
Biographies.
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Amicus Curiae: Henry W. Hilliard's view of slavery
  • An improbable journey
  • Exchange of letters
  • Banquet in honor of Henry W. Hilliard
  • Manifesto of the Brazilian Anti-Slavery Society.

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