The Financial Crisis of Abolition
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: June 28, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780300134193
Subjects: Economic history; Slavery & emancipation; History; History - General History; History: World; Labor; Latin America - South America; History / South America; General; 19th century; Brazil; Economic aspects; Emancipation; Finance; Slaves
Description: From 1850-1914, Brazil enjoyed political and financial stability, interupted just once. During the rupture, 1889-1894 the country suffered two successful coups-d'état, military government, civil war and a disastrous decline in the value of the national currency. These years of crisis came in the wake of Brazil's abolition of slavery.