O Imperador e o Príncipe: a participação do governo imperial brasileiro na questão da crise dinástica no Reino do Congo (1857-1860)

Abstract

The dissertation seeks to address the Foreign Policy II reign for Portuguese colonies in Africa, especially Angola and surrounding areas during the 1850s and 1860s, during which the traditional historiography considers to be of little or no contact. With the use of documents of Brazilian, Portuguese and British foreign ministries, as well as records written by Africans, this dissertation focuses on the indictment of participation of Brazilian General Consul, the doctor Saturnino de Sousa e Oliveira in the protests engendered by Prince Nicholas de Água Rosada e Sardonia, the Kingdom of Congo against the interference of the Portuguese crown in succession process in that him, which took place between 1858-1860, as well as in his murder. Showing that despite the end of the slave trade in 1850 after the Brazilian imperial state sought to maintain economic and political ties in Portuguese Africa despite the strengthening of the Portuguese Colonial State in the region and the growing presence of other European countries.