Um retrato do império. Abolição e propriedade na trajetória de Henrique Beuarepaire Rohan

Abstract

This article connects the trajectory of the State Counsellor Henrique de Beaurepaire-Rohan with the rural democracy project worked out by Rio de Janeiro´abolitionists circles from 1883. As the article focuses on B. Rohan´s trajectory we intend to show how he became an argument of authority able to ground and legitimate the arguments of many abolitionists. In spite of the failure of the projects of land reform, the net of alliances built permitted the project of democracy to go beyond the sphere of the radical abolitionism, so that it gain more repercussion in political debates in the last years of Brazilian monarchy.

Keywords

• rural democracy
• imperial elite
• land structure
• Henrique de Beaurepaire-Rohan