Abstract
After the end of the Civil War (1861-1865), American abolitionist James Redpath published a series of letters on slavery and the lives of slaves in Brazil. These letters were fundamental for the revision of the interpretation that the abolicionistas of that country made of the supposed smoothness of the Brazilian slavery, as well as of the greater facility of the blacks to be incorporated socially in Brazil. However, as important as the new interpretive bias of Redpath were his purposes in writing such letters, since they were intended to contain the immigration of southern planters to Brazil.
Keywords
slavery; anti-slavery; James Redpath