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

by JamesMcMurtryLongo (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2008

  $26.68

  A biography of Isabel Orleans-Braganza, daughter of the last emperor of Brazil. It tells her story against the historic background of the role Isabel's own ancestors. 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.