The British-Brazilian Treaty of 1826 was a treaty between the United Kingdom and the Empire of Brazil, by which Brazil agreed to ban the African slave trade.[1]
British-Brazilian Treaty of 1826
Convention between Great Britain and Brazil, for the Abolition of the African Slave Trade
It was signed at Rio de Janeiro on 23 November 1826. Exchange of ratifications took place on 13 March 1827, and the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed legislation on 2 July 1827 to enforce the treaty (Slave Trade, Convention with Brazil Act 1827, 7 & 8 Geo. 4. c. 74).[1][2][3]
In 1827, Emperor Pedro I presented the treaty to the Chamber of Deputies for its approval; its Committee for Diplomacy and Statistics approved the convention by three votes to two. In response, on 2 July 1827, deputy Raimundo José da Cunha Mattos, a member of the Committee who opposed the treaty, delivered a two-hour speech in defence of the continuation of the slave trade.[4]
The treaty provided that it would be illegal for any subject of the Empire of Brazil to be engaged in carrying out the African slave trade. It provided a three-year grace period after the exchange of ratifications, which meant that the ban took effect on 13 March 1830.[1]
The United Kingdom had mediated the Treaty of Rio de Janeiro (1825) by which Portugal recognised the independence of Brazil; the UK had made a commitment from Brazil to abolish the slave trade a condition of its support in securing recognition of Brazil's independence, and this treaty was agreed in fulfilment of that commitment.[5]
Although Emperor Pedro I supported the treaty, it did not have widespread popular support in Brazil. As a result, the Brazilian government largely failed to enforce the treaty, and the slave trade to Brazil continued despite the treaty's ban. In response, the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed the Aberdeen Act of 1845, which authorised British warships to board Brazilian ships and seize any found to be involved in the slave trade.
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Full text of the treaty (English and Portuguese)
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^ abcAdams, Jane Elizabeth (1925). "The Abolition of the Brazilian Slave Trade". The Journal of Negro History. 10 (4): 607–637. doi:10.2307/2714142. ISSN 0022-2992. JSTOR 2714142. S2CID 149914765.
^The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 7 & 8 George IV. 1827. London: His Majesty's Statute and Law Printers. 1827. pp. 521–524.
^British and Foreign State Papers: 1826–1827. London: Ridgway & H.M.S.O. 1828. pp. 609–614. OCLC 1180932937.
^Berbel, Márcia Regina; de Bivar Marquese, Rafael (2007). "The Absence of Race: Slavery, Citizenship, and Pro-Slavery Ideology in the Cortes of Lisbon and the Rio de Janeiro Constituent Assembly (1821-4)". Social History. 32 (4): 415–433. doi:10.1080/03071020701616746. ISSN 0307-1022. JSTOR 25594166. S2CID 144806687.
^Bethell, Leslie (1969). "The Independence of Brazil and the Abolition of the Brazilian Slave Trade: Anglo-Brazilian Relations, 1822-1826". Journal of Latin American Studies. 1 (2): 115–147. doi:10.1017/S0022216X00004442. ISSN 0022-216X. JSTOR 156386.
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