Brazil–United Kingdom relations

Brazil–United Kingdom relations

Brazil
United Kingdom

Brazil–United Kingdom relations refer to the bilateral relations between the Federative Republic of Brazil and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Both nations fought together against Italy during World War II.

History

The two nations established established diplomatic relations in 1826, after the British imposed a treaty pledging abolition of the African slave trade. By the 1830s, British financiers and merchants effectively controlled the leading sectors of the Brazilian economy.[1] A high priority of London was ending the large-scale slave trade to Brazil, but Brazilian elites strongly resisted, saying the treaties had been coerced and were not valid.[2] in 1845, the Royal Navy started treating Brazilian slave ships as pirates, seizing the ships and freeing slaves. Tensions escalated and there was a threat of war. Meanwhile, plantation owners imported as many slaves as they possibly could, 19,000 in 1846, and 50,000 in 1847. Finally in 1850, Brazil passed effective laws that virtually ended the slave trade. That ended the tension with Britain, but the Africans remained slaves on the plantations.[3] By the 1850s, while Brazil did not provide so much raw cotton for British mills, its coffee exports allowed the country to be one of British main consumer markets of cotton manufactures.[4]

Today the Brazilian Government has an embassy in London. The United Kingdom has an embassy in Brasília.

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Alan Krebs Manchester, British Preëminence in Brazil, Its Rise and Decline: A Study in European Expansion (1933) pp. 1-158.
  2. ↑ Manchester, British Preëminence in Brazil, pp. 165-276.
  3. ↑ Tâmis Parron, "The British Empire and the Suppression of the Slave Trade to Brazil: A Global History Analysis." Journal of World History 29.1 (2018): 1-36.
  4. ↑ Hyam, Britain's Imperial Century 1815-1914 (2002) p 57


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