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Agostinho Marques Perdigão Malheiro
1824–1881
A Brazilian jurist, writer, and public figure of the nineteenth century, he is best remembered for a major study of slavery in Brazil that examined the subject through law, history, and society. His work became an important reference for readers trying to understand slavery and emancipation in the final decades of the Empire.
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Indice chronologico dos factos mais notaveis da Historia do Brasil desde seu descobrimento em 1500 até 1849
by Agostinho Marques Perdigão Malheiro
About the author
Born in Campanha, Minas Gerais, in 1824 and later active in Rio de Janeiro, Perdigão Malheiro built a career as a lawyer, writer, and parliamentarian. He also worked in public institutions and left a mark as an intellectual engaged with some of the hardest political and legal questions of his time.
He is most closely associated with A escravidão no Brasil: ensaio histórico, jurídico, social, a wide-ranging study that treated slavery not just as an economic fact but as a legal and moral problem. That book helped secure his reputation as one of the key Brazilian authors writing seriously about slavery in the nineteenth century.
Modern scholars often note that his ideas can be complex and sometimes debated, but his importance is clear: he tried to bring legal reasoning and historical argument to a system already under intense criticism. For listeners today, his writing offers a window into how Brazil's educated elite grappled with slavery, reform, and freedom in the years before abolition.