Isabel Orleans-Braganca: The Brazilian Princess Who Freed the Slaves

ISBN-13: 9780786432011 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 300 str.

James McMurtry Longo

Opis

This is a biography of Isabel Orleans-Braganza daughter of the last emperor of Brazil. Isabel was the highly visable heir to the throne of a country where women were expected to be nearly invisible. Although hating politics, she became a skilled politician and determined abolitionist committed to peacefully ending slavery in the country that first introduced slavery to America.