Abstract
Following the signing of the 1826 Convention with Great Britain by which the government of D. Pedro First agreed in Exchange for Britain recognition to curb the transatlantic slave trade to the Empire from 1830. Brazilian consular representations were created in Portuguese Africa with the explicit purpose of protecting the performance of Brazilian slave traders in the last years of slave trade under the Imperial flag. In this way, this article investigates the work of João Luiz Airoza, consul of Brazil in Mozambique, between 1827 and 1828, in defense of the slave circuit among Brazil and East Africa. Therefore, the text presented here prioritized as a source of study the consular documents produced by Airoza and addressed to the old Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
Keywords
International relations; Brazil-Mozambique relations; Consular mission; Slave trade; East Africa