Brazilian Studies: Primary Sources
Resources on Slavery
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Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade DatabaseContains information on more than 36,000 slave voyages that forcibly embarked over 12 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. It offers researchers, students and the general public a chance to rediscover the reality of one of the largest forced movements of peoples in world history.
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Age of Exploration This link opens in a new windowDiaries, maps, ship logs, and other documentation chronicling European maritime exploration from c. 1420 - 1920.
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Slavery, Abolition, and Social Justice This link opens in a new windowPrimary sources, an interactive map, scholarly essays, tutorials, and other research tools on slavery and abolition in the United States.
Electronic Texts
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Oliveira Lima Library This link opens in a new windowPamphlets, monographs, and other documents from the collection of Manoel de Oliveira Lima, a Brazilian diplomat, journalist, and historian in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Sabin Americana (1500-1926) This link opens in a new windowWorks about the Americas from the 16th through early 20th centuries, including books, pamphlets, and serials. Collection is based on Joseph Sabin's bibliography Sabin Americana.
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Confidential Print: Latin America, 1833-1969 This link opens in a new windowA vital resource for any scholar of Latin American history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The contents include the FO 467/1-5 (Brazil, 1947-1951) file class from the UK National Archives, Kew.
- Biblioteca Virtual Nacional of the National Library of Portugal
An extraordinary array of historic texts on Brazil may be accessed through this site. It includes a digitized edition of the first history of Brazil (1576). - National Library of Brazil, the Fundação Biblioteca Nacional
The full-text retrieval of books from the classics of Brazilian literature may be read at this site. One accesses the catalog of over 1,000 entries by clicking on Digital Library. The site is partially navigable in English. - Biblioteca Virtual Cervantes
The full-text library of Spanish-language materials here includes some works on Brazil in Spanish, Portuguese, and English. - The United States and Brazil: Expanding Frontiers, Comparing Cultures
This project explores the history of Brazil, interactions between Brazil and the United States from the eighteenth century to the present, and the parallels and contrasts between Brazilian and American culture and history. The project is a collaboration between the Library of Congress and the National Library of Brazil. - Google Books
Many Portuguese-language books that are out of copyright.
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