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  • 18 - Conservative Tracks toward Independence: Transfer of the Court to Rio de Janeiro, the Porto Revolution, and Brazilian Autonomy

  • from Part II - Brazil, Portugal, and Africa
  • General editor Wim Klooster, Clark University, Massachusetts
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
    Published online:
    20 October 2023
    Print publication:
    09 November 2023, pp 474-495

  • Summary

    The escape of the Portuguese royal family to Rio de Janeiro in 1807-8 proved a decisive step towards Brazilian political emancipation. The encounter of the Portuguese court and state with the wealthy slave elite residing in the capital of the colony was a turning point for all players. In the following thirteen years, the Portuguese court would define both the course of liberalism in Portugal and the political independence of Brazil, proclaimed soon after the return of the King of Portugal to Europe in 1821. The relationship between the court and Rio de Janeiro’s aristocracy, which financed the former, occurred through the strict observance of a social etiquette that was indifferent to the conditions of the new tropical setting. The history of both Portugal and independent Brazil throughout the nineteenth century was established there.