Navigator (Jun 2010)
Divisão Naval do Leste: A Marinha Imperial na Costa da África
Abstract
The purpose of this article consists essentially to analyze the Navy Division of the East performance, base that the Imperial Navy established in the Africa coast in resulting from diplomatic agreements accomplished in 1826 and 1827 between the Brazil’s Empire and the United Kingdom. The essential question of these agreements involved a specifically British interest: the suppression of the African slaves trading. On the other hand, in function to de Cisplatina War (1825-1828), the Brazil needed of the English support to maintain the navy blockade of the River Plate. The Imperial Navy established in the African seashore to supposedly to inspect the intense slave traffic, consummated the foreign policy decisions of the young country and effectively accomplished a dual duty: dissuaded the United Kingdom about the cooperation in relation the reduction and subsequent suppression of the slave traffic and protected the Brazilian trading against pirate’s attacks.
