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by Laurentino Gomes

conquest attempts, 152

  conspiracies, 118, 125, 126

  constitutional reforms, 230–32, 233

  Continental Blockade, 6, 18, 145, 225

  Convention of Cintra, 225

  Copenhagen, 6

  copper warming-pans, 150

  Correio Braziliense, 81, 145, 146, 208

  Cortes, 130, 189, 228, 232, 233, 237, 239

  Costigan, Arthur William, 16

  Council of State (Portugal), 18, 19

  coup attempts, 118, 125, 126

  crime, 162, 165

  Crown Manuscripts, 246

  Cruz, Antonio Gonçalves, 203–4, 206, 209

  da Camara Cascudo, Luis, 189–90

  da Costa, Hipólito José, 68–69, 81, 93–94, 154, 155, 208

  da Cunha, Luiz, 16

  da Pina Manique, Diogo, 44

  Darwin, Charles, 102

  da Silva Lisboa, José, 66

  dead, burial of, 167, 169–70

  de Aguirre, Juan Francisco, 176

  de Andrada e Silva, José Bonifácio, 80, 239

  de Assis Mascarenhas, Francisco, 152–53

  de Azevedo, Joaquim, 33, 34, 135, 136–37, 233–34

  de Azevedo, Madame, 135–36

  Debret, Jean-Baptiste, 108, 155, 156–57, 178–79, 187, 214

  de Caleppi, Lourenço, 34–35, 148

  de Freycinet, Louis, 187, 188

  de Freycinet, Rose, 187–88

  de Jesus, Clara Maria, 182–83

  de Jesus, Jorge Pardo, 182–83

  de Miranda Montenegro, Caetano Pinto, 60, 207

  Denmark, 6

  de Oliveira, João Fernandes, 182

  de Oliveira Lima, Manuel

  Brazil, 15, 69, 71, 232, 236, 238

  Carlota Joaquina, 126, 128

  Europe, 10

  João VI, 118, 123

  Pernambucan Revolt, 204, 208

  Portugal, 21, 26

  public servants, kickbacks and payments to, 134–35

  Rio de Janeiro, 104

  de Sousa Coutinho, Domingos, 81, 144, 208, 224

  de Sousa Coutinho, Rodrigo, 16–18, 66, 72, 80, 122, 151

  diamonds, 27, 79, 185–87

  Dias, Maria Odila Leite da Silva, 227, 240

  dos Guimarães Peixoto, Domingos Ribeiro, 167–68

  dos Santos Marrocos, Bernardina, 41, 242, 250

  dos Santos Marrocos, Francisco, 40, 42, 242, 247, 250

  dos Santos Marrocos, Joaquinna, 249–52

  dos Santos Marrocos, Luiz

  Brazil, 159, 242–48

  career, 42

  children, 244, 249–52

  court, Portuguese, 43, 136–37

  crime, 162

  death, 248

  marriage, 244

  Portugal, invasion of, 45

  Royal Library, 40–41

  ship life, 47, 96–97

  slavery, 175, 244–45

  as source, 41–42

  Ebel, Ernst, 111, 160, 176, 212

  education, 80, 153, 192

  Ender, Thomas, 74–75, 114, 184, 193

  England. See Britain

  Enlightened Despotism, Age of, 28–29

  explorers, 153

  Fazenda, Vieira, 121

  Florentino, Manolo Garcia, 104, 172

  Flyer (ship), 50, 61, 85, 87

  fog, 51–52

  Fontainebleau, Treaty of, 20–21

  forros, 181–83

  foundling wheels, 252

  Foy, Maximilien, 35, 199, 222

  France, 13, 18–21. See also French Revolution; Napoleon Bonaparte; Peninsular War

  freedom, religious, 148

  freed slaves, 181–83

  Freemasons, 44

  French Artistic Mission, 155–56, 213, 214

  French Revolution, 10–11, 12, 13, 44, 207–8, 231

  Freyre, Gilberto, 105

  Gâlvea, João de Almeida de Melo e Castro, count of, 41–42

  Gama, João de Saldanha da, 62

  Gates, David, 199

  George III, King, 8–9

  gold, 27, 78–79

  Gomes, Bernardino Antonio, 112

  Gomes, Pedro, 33

  Gonçalves dos Santos, Luis, 85–86, 89, 90, 92, 93, 214

  Goya, Francisco, 196, 201

  Graham, Maria

  Brazil, 135–36, 188–89, 232

  foundling wheels, 252

  Pernambucan Revolt, 204

  Salvador, 63, 64–65

  slavery, 170

  Great Britain. See Britain

  Guanabara Bay, Brazil, 84–85, 86, 87, 89–90, 109–10, 158

  gunpowder, 227

  Haiti, 164, 165

  hand-kissing ceremony, 83, 92, 141–42

  health, public, 71

  Henderson, James

  Brazil, 133, 187, 192

  court, Portuguese, 140–41, 142

  slavery, 171, 179

  violence, 165

  Hibernia, HMS (ship), 37, 38, 50, 54

  Holanda, Sérgio Buarque de, 26, 80, 139, 176, 239

  housing, 87–88, 93–94, 136, 147, 154–55

  Humboldt, Alexander von, 72

  hygiene, 42–43, 104–5, 115, 117, 167

  ice skates, 145, 150

  indigenous people, 70, 74, 114, 142–43, 155, 194–95

  Industrial Revolution, 13, 23, 145–46, 200

  Inquisition, 25

  intellectual life, 80–81, 192

  João VI, king of Brazil and Portugal

  appearance, 91, 117, 118, 121

  ascension to power, 118

  bathing, 115, 117

  Brazil, departure for, 35

  Brazil, effect on, 236–37, 238

  Brazil, kingdom status for, 154

  Brazil, voyage to, 50, 52

  Britain, secret agreement with, 19

  cabinet, new, 151–52

  children, 128

  constitutional reforms, 231–32, 233

  coronation, 209, 210–11, 214–16

  court, new, 138–42

  death, 126

  depression, 118

  diamond, false, 185, 187

  dress, 121

  fears, 115, 121

  fleeing, reasons for, 5–7

  France, fooling of, 19–20

  habits, 121, 217–18

  hand-kissing ceremony, 83, 92, 141–42

  health, 117–18

  homosexual relations, 120

  housing in Rio de Janeiro, 87–88, 93

  indecision, 5

  legacy, 67, 83, 122–23, 236

  life in Rio de Janeiro, 216–18

  love life, 119–20

  marriage and separation, 5, 120, 126, 127

  Napoleon Bonaparte on, 235

  Pernambucan Revolt, 209

  personality, 5, 118–19, 121, 125

  portrait, 116

  Portugal, return to, 226, 227–34

  proclamation to Brazilian people, 19

  Salvador layover, 57–60, 62, 65–67

  territorial expansion/conquest attempts, 152

  trellises, 154–55

  Jordão, Manuel Rodrigues, 139

  José, Dom, 5, 25, 118

  José de Menezes, Eugênia, 119

  José I, King, 8, 16, 29, 71, 83

  Journal of a Voyage to Brazil (Graham), 189

  judicial penance, 82–83

  judicial system, 148

  Junot, Jean-Andoche

  João VI, 119

  Peninsular War, 197–98, 200

  Portugal, 21, 22, 35, 222, 223–24

  kickbacks to
public servants, 134–35

  Koster, Henry, 77, 117, 189–91, 205

  Leão, Braz Carneiro, 138

  Leão, Fernando Carneiro, 129

  Leão, Gertrudes Carneiro, 128–29

  Lebreton, Joachim, 155, 156

  Lent, 166

  Leopoldina, Princess, 188, 209, 211–12, 213–14, 229

  lice, 43, 53, 91

  Light, Kenneth, 38, 39, 48 58–59

  Lindley, Thomas, 191

  Lines of Torres Vedras, 201–2

  Lisbon, 21, 22, 28, 42–43, 222–23. See also Portugal

  literacy, 71, 192

  Literary Society of Rio de Janeiro, 80–81

  Loison, General, 199

  London, 145–46

  Lopes, Elias Antonio, 174–75

  Louis XIV, King, 9, 10

  Louis XVI, King, 11, 231

  Luccock, John

  Brazil, 71, 187

  court, Portuguese, 132–33, 134–35

  palace, 212

  Rio de Janeiro, 77, 102–3, 106–8, 112

  slavery, 176–77, 181

  Madrid, Treaty of, 69

  Mafra, Palace of, 5, 18, 33, 118

  Magalhães, Raimundo, Jr., 131

  Maler, Colonel, 94

  Malerba, Jurandir

  Brazil, 155, 157

  celebrations, 211–12

  court, Portuguese, 139–40, 142

  João VI, 123

  Rio de Janeiro, 109

  Royal Pantry, 133

  Manchester, Alan

  Brazil, 66, 238

  British-Portuguese treaty, 147, 149

  court, Portuguese, 44

  Portugal, invasion of, 22

  ship life, 47

  slavery, 172

  manners, table, 108

  Manoel, João, 194–95

  manumitted slaves, 181–83

  Maria I, mad Queen of Portugal

  Brazil, departure for, 36

  death, 209, 210, 230

  insanity, 4–5, 8, 9, 118

  Rio de Janeiro, arrival in, 93

  science, distrust of, 25

  Marialva, marquis of, 19–20, 211–12

  Marie Antoinette, 10–11, 231

  market, slave, 169–72

  Martins, Oliveira, 29, 32, 42, 115, 117–18, 234

  Masonic lodges, 44

  Masséna, André, 202

  Mawe, John

  about, 185

  Brazil, 74, 77–78, 149–50, 155, 191–92

  diamond, false, 185, 187

  Rio de Janeiro, 101

  slavery, 182

  smuggling, 79

  meat, 108

  Medusa (ship), 50, 52, 55

  Minerva (ship), 49, 59, 61

  Miranda, José Antonio de, 164, 239–40

  mixed porphyria, 8–9

  monarchy, absolute, 4

  Moniteur, Le, 32–33, 223

  Monteiro, Tobias

  Brazil, 156

  gold, 27

  João VI, 7, 91, 120, 121, 122, 217, 232

  Peninsular War, 27

  Pernambucan Revolt, 207

  Montigny, Grandjean de, 214, 232

  moonlighting slaves, 176–77

  Moore, Graham, 53

  Moraes, Melo, 66

  Moraes, Rubens Borba de, 184

  Morro do Castelo (Castle Mountain), 167–68

  Mug, Brother, 206, 209

  mule troopers, 75–77

  music, 157

  Napoleon Bonaparte. See also Napoleonic wars; Peninsular War

  achievements, 13–14

  Continental Blockade, 6

  death, 235

  imprisonment, 203

  legacy, 235–36

  military genius, 11, 12–13

  power, 9–10, 18, 20

  Napoleonic wars, 10, 11, 12, 13, 189, 196. See also Peninsular War

  National Library of Rio de Janeiro, 246

  neutrality, politics of, 29

  New Blacks Cemetery, 169–70

  news, speed of, 61

  Northeastern interior of Brazil, 190–91

  Norton, Luiz, 35, 93, 117

  Olinda, Brazil, 204, 207

  Oliveira, João Francisco de, 119

  Oman, Charles, 22, 197, 224

  O’Neill, Thomas, 54–55, 113

  owners, slave, 175–76, 182

  Palace of Mafra, 5, 18, 33, 118

  Palace of Queluz, 5, 8, 33, 118

  Palmela, count of, 140, 231

  Pedro, prince of Beira

  appearance, 188

  birth, 128

  Brazil, 19, 67, 189, 228

  marriage, 20, 209, 211–12, 214

  rebels and, 230

  Pedro Carlos, Dom, 35, 230

  penance, judicial, 82–83

  Peninsular War, 21–22, 197–202, 222–25, 227. See also Napoleonic wars

  Pereira, ngelo, 117

  Pereira da Silva, J. M., 233

  Pernambucan Revolt, 203–9, 237

  Pimentel, Alberto, 131

  pirates, 174

  Plaza of Commerce massacre, 232

  Pohl, Emanuel, 105

  police, 163–66

  Pombal, Sebastião de Carvalho e Melo, marquis of, 28–29

  Pompeu de Toledo, Roberto, 74

  Porto Alegre, Manuel, 121

  Porto Revolution, 230, 239

  ports, opening of, 65–67, 144–45, 147–48, 149–50

  Portugal. See also Peninsular War; Portuguese ships

  Brazil, trade with, 15–16, 227

  Britain and, 6–7, 18–19, 29–30, 147–49, 226–27

  Catholic Church, 24–25

  censorship, 28–29

  constitutional reforms, 230–32, 233

  Cortes, 130, 189, 228, 232, 233, 237, 239

  Council of State, 18, 19

  decline, 23–26

  demographic resources, 24

  economy, 24, 26–27

  France, bluffing of, 18–20

  invasion of, 21–22, 197–202, 222–23

  monarchy, absolute, 4

  natural catastrophe, 28

  neutrality, politics of, 29

  reforms, 28–29

  return to, 226, 227–34

  sea power, 24

  Portugal, Fernando José de, 82, 151

  Portugal, Marcos Antonio, 157

  Portuguese ships. See also specific ships

  about, 24, 46–47, 49–50

  arrival in Rio de Janeiro, 84–85, 89–92

  plans for arrival of, 85–89

  post, speed of, 19

  Prado, Almeida, 175

  pregnancy out of wedlock, 249, 250–52

  Presas, José, 129–30

  Pretos Novos (New Blacks) Cemetery, 169–70

  Prince of Brazil (ship), 31, 50

  Princess Carlota (ship), 96–97

  prostitution, 65, 75, 162, 193

  public servants, kickbacks and payments to, 134–35

  punishment of slaves, 164, 165, 178–79

  Queen of Portugal (ship), 31, 36, 49, 52

  Queluz, Palace of, 5, 8, 33, 118

  Quental, Antero de, 25

  Ramos, Artur, 178

  Ratton, Jácome, 43

  rebellions, slave, 82, 83, 164

  Recife, Brazil, 203–4, 205, 207, 209

  religious freedom, 148

  revolts, slave, 82, 83, 164

  Rio de Janeiro. See also Brazil

  appearance, 102, 104

  bells, church, 109

  burial of dead, 167, 169–70

  cannon
fire, 109–10

  crime, 162, 165

  customs, 105–6, 163–64, 166

  dress, 105

  food, 108–9

  French influence, 159–60

  health and medical care, 112–13

  housing, 87–88, 93–94, 136, 147, 154–55

  manners, table, 108

  meals, 106–9

  meat, 108

  police, 163–66

  population, 103, 113, 162

  as port, 101–2, 104

  Portuguese ships, arrival of, 84–85, 89–92

  Portuguese ships, plans for arrival of, 85–89

  roads, 109, 113

  sanitation, 104–5, 167

  slaves and slavery, 104–5, 110–13, 164–65, 169–72, 176, 181–83

  trellises, 154–55, 163–64

  violence, 165

  Rio de Janeiro Gazette, 154, 158–59

  Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, 71–72, 73

  River Plate Question, 129

  roads, 109, 113, 153

  Rodrigues, José Honório, 233, 239

  Rothenberg, Gunther, 12–13

  Royal Chapel (Rio de Janeiro), 93, 120, 157, 214, 215

  Royal Library (Portugal), 39, 40–41, 45, 96, 246

  Royal Navy (Britain), 47–48, 101–2, 146–47

  Royal Pantry and Buttery (Rio de Janeiro), 133, 135

  Royal Prince (ship), 31, 36, 38, 48, 49, 50, 52

  Rufino de Sousa Lobato, Francisco, 120

  Rufino de Sousa Lobato, Matias Antonio, 120–21

  Rugendas, Johann Moritz., 63, 187, 212

  runaway slaves, 180–81

  Saint-Hilaire, Augustin de, 68, 78, 187, 193

  Salvador, Brazil, 57–67, 70, 245–46

  sanitation, 42–43, 104–5, 167

  Santa Catarina, Brazil, 73–74

  São Cristovão Palace, 188, 213, 217–18

  São João Theatre, 157, 160, 165

  São Paulo, Brazil, 74–75

  Schultz, Kirsten, 122, 248

  Schwarcz, Lília, 26, 27, 32, 45, 117, 215

  scientific advancement, 192–95

  Secret Memoirs of D. Carlota Joaquina, The (Presas), 130

  ship life, 46–47, 48–49, 53, 54–55, 96–97. See also Portuguese ships; specific ships

  shipwrecks, 173–74

  Shyllon, F. O., 174

  Silva, Amaro Velho da, 92, 140

  Silva, Chica da, 182

  slaves and slavery

  arrest of slaves, 164–65

  branding of slaves, 178, 180

  Brazil, 82, 172

  Debret’s documentation of, 156–57

  manumitted/freed slaves, 181–83

  market, slave, 169–72

  moonlighting slaves, 176–77

  owners, slave, 175–76, 182

  price of slaves, 175, 176, 244, 245

  punishment of slaves, 164, 165, 178–79

 

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