Abbott Gregóire, Haiti and Brazil: repercussions on the eve of the 19th century

Abstract

The ideas of the French abbot Henri Grégoire (1750-1831) - a revolutionary of 1789 - concerning the Haitian Revolution (1791-1825), the abolition of slavery, racial prejudice and European colonial domination had, in his times, great importance and impact, reverberating in Brazil in multifarious forms, not only among the clergy but also in social and political disputes during the Regency period. Grégoire, in his writings, devoted himself to analyzing Brazilian slavocratic society and was also responsible, in the beginning of the 19th century, for disseminating the discussion of the Haitian political model.