Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. 1 Toward the Empire of Brazil 17
5. 2 Into Africa 33
6. 3 Buying and Kidnapping Africans 53
7. 4 Wise? 67
8. 5 Crisis 85
9. 6 The U.S. to Seize the Amazon? 107
10. 7 Making the Slave Trade Legal? 128
11. 8 The Civil War Begins / The Slave Trade Continues 151
12. 9 Deport U.S. Negroes to Brazil? 172
13. 10 Confederates to Brazil 198
14. 11 The End of Slavery and the Slave Trade? 222
15. Epilogue 244
16. Notes 255
17. Index 323
18. About the Author 341