Table of Contents

Introduction 1 Toward the Empire of Brazil 2 Into Africa 3 Buying and Kidnapping Africans4 Wise? 5 Crisis 6 The U.S. to Seize the Amazon? 7 Making the Slave Trade Legal? 8 The Civil War Begins/The Slave Trade Continues 9 Deport U.S. Negroes to Brazil? 10 Confederates to Brazil 11 The End of Slavery and the Slave Trade? Epilogue Notes Index About the Author

About the Author

Gerald Horne is Moores Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston, and has published three dozen books including, The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the USA and Race War! White Supremacy and the Japanese Attack on the British Empire.

Reviews

"This fascinating study uses the tools and sources of diplomatic history to examine a sweep of national and international history far beyond the confines of diplomacy...For Horne, the slave trade, rather than slavery, was an explosive political issue much later in the 19th century that is normally understood. Highly recommended." - Choice"Horne expertly interweaves the political views presented in official documents with personal commentary from letters and travel accounts... It is valuable for scholars of U.S. foreign policy due to its coverage of diplomacy between the United States and other nations. This work contributes to the study of U.S. South since Horne details the plans of some southern leaders and planter elites who looked to Brazil as the answer when all was lost in the United States. " -The Journal of Southern History"A well-researched, skillfully-written, and carefully-argued diplomatic history examining connections between the United States, Brazil, Africa, and Europe as they relate to the transatlantic slave trade. Horne sheds considerable light upon the ideas, ruminations, and practices of U.S. nationals in their interactions with and encounters of Brazil over the question of slavery, especially from the mid-nineteenth century on, and makes a valuable and important contribution to our knowledge and understanding of (American) hemispheric relations and trajectories, both eventual and potential." --Michael A. Gomez, editor of Diasporic Africa: A Reader"An important study that starts with the proposition that what happens abroad affects developments in the United States. For the first time we are made aware of the extensive contacts between pro-slavery forces in the United States in the years after the abolition of the slave trade and the promoters of slavery in and the slave trade to Brazil and elsewhere." --Richard J. M. Blackett author of Divided Hearts: Britain and the American Civil War