Brazilian History, Fuck Yeah!

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carolathhabsburg:

Afro American militar.1890s
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Another photo from Francisco Rodrigues Collection, depicting a slave called Belisario. Date unknown.
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This false portrait depicts Princess Teresa Cristina of Two Sicilies and was sent to Brazil to persuade the Emperor, Pedro II, to marry her. He was obviously disappointed when they met: she was short, a little fat and not elegant at all. Maybe, because of that, the Emperor kept a mistress untill his death According to the letters, they really loved each other. Her name? Luisa Margarida de Barros Portugal, Countess of Barral.
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fuckyeahlatinamericanhistory:

Hans Staden: The True History of His Captivity, 1557

German soldier Hans Staden sailed to Brazil on a couple of occasions and spent some years there working until his capture by a (now extinct) Tupinamba cannibal tribe from the south east of the country. He was held for a few months during which time his Spanish shipmates were executed, but he managed to escape. He published Hans Staden: The True History of His Captivity to great success in 1557.

The image above, showing a group engaging in cannibalism, is an early pictorial depiction of indigenous people of the Americas. Staden’s account of the Tupinamba people of South America, along with similar contemporary accounts of the Tupinamba by the Frenchmen Jean de Lery and André Thevet, were widely read in Europe and informed Michel Montaigne’s seminal essay “Of Cannibals.” These accounts helped advance the association of cannibalism with indigenous people of the New World while at the same time fomenting the myth of what would later be termed the “noble savage”. The Tupinamba lived in the area in and around the short-lived French colony of France Antarctique, near present-day Rio de Janeiro.

(via BibliOdyssey)
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Another picture from Francisco Rodrigues Collections.

Here, the boy Arthur Gomes Leal is depicted with a slave called Monica. I’m really not sure how to translate this, so I’ll try to explain.

This slave was called “ama-de-leite” in Brazil. Wealthy women did not breastfeed their children. This task was to african slaves. So, wealthy children had their first mothers, if I can say that, in slave women. Is there a particular word for this in English?

The photo was made by João Ferreira Villella, back in 1860’s.
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Apr

“The first mass in Brazil”, by Victor Meirelles.

Although the first mass was celebrated on April 26th of 1500, the painting came only in 1860. Victor Meireless is, no doubt, one of the great brazilian painters of 19th century.
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fuckyeahlatinamericanhistory:

“Dom Pedro II of Brazil and the Princess Isabella of Brazil”

Published in Harper’s Weekly (Nov. 23, 1889).
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Emperor Pedro II of Brazil portrayed in 1870, as an Admiral.
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Spanish Infanta Carlota Joaquina, wife to Joao VI of Portugal, portrayed by Giuseppe Trono in 1790. She was 15.
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Adelaide Lemos Bastos, a wealthy brazilian woman, from a sugar-producer family. Date unknown.

This pic belongs to one of the biggest late 19th century/early 20th century brazilian photograph collection, the “Francisco Rodrigues Collection”.