The Sounds of Silence
Subtitle: Nineteenth-Century Portugal And the Abolition of the Slave Trade (European Expansion and Global Interaction)
Contributors: Richard Wall (Translator)
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: January 15, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781571814470
Subjects: European history: c 1750 to c 1900; Slavery & emancipation; Social history; c 1800 to c 1900; General; Brazil; History; Politics / Current Events; Portugal; History: World; Antislavery movements; Europe - Spain & Portugal; 19th century; Emancipation; Slaves
First sentence: In 1792, in his dispatches to Lisbon, the Portuguese ambassador in London mentioned that 'universal benevolence' was surprisingly taking over from material interests and that the party of those who were demanding the end of the slave trade was growing 'at a pace which nothing had led one to expect'.