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My Formative Years (Paperback)
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Joaquim Nabuco, for more than three decades a dominant figure in
the literary, intellectual and political life of Brazil, was born
in Recife in the country's Northeast in 1849 and died in Washington
in 1910. He was what we would now call a public intellectual,
indeed given that he spent half his adult life in Europe and the
United States a trans-national public intellectual and from a
country on the periphery of the world system. Nabuco is best known
as the inspirational leader of the campaign in the 1880s for the
abolition of slavery in Brazil, which after abolition in the United
States and Cuba was the last remaining slave state in the Americas.
Eighteen months after slavery was finally ended in 1888 the
Brazilian Empire was overthrown and Nabuco, a committed monarchist,
believing--wrongly--that his public career was over (from 1899
until his death he was to serve the Republic with distinction as
Brazilian minister in London and Brazil's first ambassador to the
Washington), devoted himself in 'internal exile' to writing,
including a series of newspaper articles on his education, his
early intellectual development, his discovery of the world outside
Brazil and his life as a young diplomat and politician. These
articles, together with some later additions, were published as
Minha Formacao (My Formative Years) in 1900. In twenty six chapters
Nabuco examines (though not in chronological order): the first
eight years of his life in Massangana, a sugar plantation in
Pernambuco worked by slaves and his return there, as a student aged
twenty, which he claimed determined his decision to devote himself
to the abolition of slavery in Brazil; his education in the Law
Faculties in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo; the influence of Walter
Bagehot s The English Constitution (1867) on his political
thinking; his introduction to French literature and history
(besides Portuguese he wrote his first poems and plays in French);
his first visit to Europe in 1873-4, primarily a Grand Tour of
Italy and France but ending in London where, he wrote, he was
touched by the beginnings of anglomania (he was to visit and reside
in London on seven separate occasions during the next 20 year
before his six years as Brazilian minister there); his two years
(1876-8) as attache in the Brazilian legations in Washington and
London; the beginning of his political career in Pernambuco,
contesting and winning election to the Chamber of Deputies in 1878
at the age of 29 and becoming a self-styled 'English liberal in the
Brazilian Parliament'; the influence of English and North American
abolitionists on his thinking about slavery and abolition; and the
eventually successful parliamentary struggle to end slavery. A
concluding chapter ('The last ten years 1889-1899') briefly
considers his life after the abolition of slavery and the fall of
the Empire.
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