History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xv
4. Introduction 1
5. I. Conquest and Colonial Rule, 1500–1579
6. Introduction 7
7. Letter to King Manuel I of Portugal 12
8. Captaincy Charter Granted to Duarte Coelho 18
9. Letter from a Jesuit Friar 21
10. Impressions of a French Calvinist 25
11. Indigenous Experiences of Colonization 28
12. On Cannibals 32
13. On the Customs of the Indians of the Land 35
14. A Description of the Tupinambá 38
15. History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil 41
16. Portraits: Hans Staden 45
17. II, Sugar and Slavery in the Atlantic World, 1580–1694
18. Introduction 49
19. Letter from a Portuguese Trader 53
20. Exploration of the Amazon 55
21. The Inquisition in Brazil 59
22. Excerpts from the Sermon on the Rosary 64
23. The Sugar Industry 68
24. The Dutch Siege of Olinda and Recife 73
25. An Eyewitness Account of the First Battle of Guararapes 76
26. Two Documents in the War against Palmares 79
27. Bandeirantes 84
28. Portraits: Count Johan Maurits von Nassau-Seigen 86
29. III Gold and the New Colonial Order, 1695–1807
30. Introduction 91
31. The Brazilian Gold Rush 97
32. The Minas Uprising of 1720 100
33. Expulsion of the Jesuits from Brazil 104
34. Portugal, Brazil, and The Wealth of Nations 107
35. Poems from Baroque Minas 110
36. Tiradentes’s Sentence 117
37. The Tailors’ Revolt 119
38. Letter from a Sugar Mill Owner 122
39. Portraits: Chica da Silva de Oliveira 126
40. IV The Portuguese Royal Family in Rio de Janeiro, 1808–1821
41. Introduction 131
42. The Royal Family’s Journey to Brazil 136
43. Letter from a Son in Brazil to His Father in Portugal 137
44. Treaty between Portugal and Great Britain 140
45. Rio de Janeiro’s First Medical School 145
46. The Influence of the Haitian Revolution in Brazil 148
47. Petition for Pedro I to Remain in Brazil 151
48. Speech Given at the Cortes (National Assembly) of Lisbon 154
49. Portraits: Empress Maria Leopoldina of Brazil 158
50. V From Independence to the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1822–1850
51. Introduction 163
52. On the Declaration of Brazilian Independence 168
53. Acclamation of Pedro as Emperor of Brazil 170
54. On Slavery 173
55. From the Journal of Maria Graham 176
56. Portugal Recognizes the Brazilian Empire 181
57. The Malê Revolt 184
58. How to Write the History of Brazil 187
59. Scenes from the Slave Trade 190
60. Cruelty to Slaves 193
61. The Praieira Revolution Manifesto to the World 197
62. Portraits: José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva 199
63. VI Coffee, the Empire, and Abolition, 1851–1888
64. Introduction 205
65. Memoirs of a Settler in Brazil 211
66. O Guarani 214
67. The U.S. Civil War and Slave Rebellions in Brazil 218
68. The Slave Ship 219
69. Victims and Executioners 228
70. The Republican Manifesto 233
71. Law of the Free Womb 236
72. Early Brazilian Feminism 240
73. Letters to the French Mineralogist Claude-Henri Gorceix 243
74. Selections from Abolitionism 246
75. A Critique of José de Alencar’s O Guarani 250
76. Abolition Decree 253
77. Portraits: Emperor Dom Pedro II 255
78. VII Republican Brazil and the Onset of Modernization, 1889–1929
79. Introduction 261
80. Hymn of the Proclamation of the Republic 268
81. The Human Races 271
82. Os Sertões or Rebellion in the Backlands 274
83. The Owner’s Pastry Shop 277
84. Revolt of the Whip, A Revolta da Chibata 282
85. Three Types of Bureaucrats 285
86. On the Mestizo in Brazil 290
87. Demands of the São Paulo General Strike of 1917 295
88. Brazil and World War I 298
89. The Cannibalist Manifesto (Manifesto Antropófago) 300
90. Macunaíma 309
91. Revolutionary Manifestos from the Tenentes Revolts 311
92. An Essay on Brazilian Sadness 316
93. Portraits: Tarsila do Amaral 318
94. VIII Getúlio Vargas, the Estado Novo, and World War II, 1930–1945
95. Introduction 321
96. From the Platform of the Liberal Alliance 325
97. Prestes’s Declaration about the Liberal Alliance 327
98. The Masters and the Slaves 330
99. Speech by the First Woman Elected to Congress in Brazil 335
100. Manifesto of the National Liberating Alliance 340
101. The Cordial Man 344
102. Vargas and the Estado Novo 349
103. Rubber and the Allies’ War Effort 353
104. Portraits: Patrícia Galvão (Pagú) 358
105. IX Democratic Governance and Developmentalism, 1946–1964
106. Introduction 363
107. Telenovelas in Constructing the Country of the Future 369
108. The Oil Is Ours 374
109. An Unrelenting Critic of Vargas 378
110. Vargas’s Suicide Letter 380
111. The Life of a Factory Worker 383
112. Operation Pan America 387
113. Excerpts from Child of the Dark 391
114. Education as a Practice of Freedom 396
115. Letter of Manumission for the Brazilian Peasant 399
116. Brazil’s New Foreign Policy 402
117. Development and the Northeast 406
118. President João Goulart’s Speech at Central do Brasil 411
119. March of the Family with God for Freedom 414
120. The U.S. Government and the 1964 Coup d’État 416
121. Portraits: Oscar Niemeyer 420
122. X The Generals in Power and the Fight for Democracy, 1964–1985
123. Introduction 427
124. Institutional Act No. 1 435
125. A U.S. Senator Supports the New Military Government 439
126. The Brazilian Revolution 442
127. The Myth of Racial Democracy 445
128. A Brazilian Congressional Representative Speaks Out 449
129. Institutional Act No. 5 451
130. Letter from the Ilha Grande Prison 454
131. The Kidnapping of the U.S. Ambassador 457
132. A Letter to Pope Paul VI 460
133. Two Presidents at the White House 466
134. National Security and the Araguaian Guerrillas 471
135. What Color Are You? 474
136. Second-Wave Brazilian Feminism 479
137. LGBT Rights and Democracy 481
138. The Movement for Political Amnesty 484
139. Lula’s May Day Speech to Brazilian Workers 489
140. Portraits: Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil 492
141. XI Redemocratization and the New Global Economy, 1985–Present
142. Introduction 497
143. Forty Seconds of AIDS 506
144. Affirmative Action in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs 510
145. A Young Voice from the MST 514
146. World Social Forum Charter of Principles 519
147. The Bolsa Família Program 523
148. Music, Culture, and Globalization 526
149. The Inaugural Speech of Brazil’s First Female President 531
150. The June Revolts 536
151. Portraits: Herbert Daniel 541
152. Suggestions for Further Reading 547
153. Brazil in the Movies 557
154. Acknowledgment of Copyrights and Sources 567
155. Index 577