"Mission to Brazils": BFASS and the organizing of a secret abolitionist mission to Brazil in the early 1840s

Authors

  • Henrique Antonio Ré Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9141.rh.2016.115377

Keywords:

Slavery, slave trade, abolition, mission

Abstract

In 1839, the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society (BFASS) covertly organized a mission to visit Brazil and, to achieve it, hired a British couple – George and Charlotte Pilkington – that should remain in the country for more than a year to collect information on trafficking and slavery and make abolitionist propaganda. From 1841, some of the information obtained by this mission was published by Anti-Slavery Reporter, the official journal of the Society. However, BFASS hid for about half a century his involvement in this venture, which only becomes clear from the crossing of information from various historical sources.

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Author Biography

  • Henrique Antonio Ré, Universidade de São Paulo
    Doutor em Sociologia pela Unicamp. Pós-doutorando no Departamento de História da Universidade de São Paulo.

Published

2016-06-30

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How to Cite

RÉ, Henrique Antonio. "Mission to Brazils": BFASS and the organizing of a secret abolitionist mission to Brazil in the early 1840s. Revista de História, São Paulo, n. 174, p. 69–100, 2016. DOI: 10.11606/issn.2316-9141.rh.2016.115377. Disponível em: https://revistas.usp.br/revhistoria/article/view/115377.. Acesso em: 22 jul. 2024.