Problem
i. Analyze the socioeconomic, political, and legal processes that led to the abolition of slavery in Brazil. What roles did Great Britain play in the history of the abolition of slavery in Brazil? Analyze the impact of the emerging coffee economy in southern Brazil in the transition from slave labor to wage labor in that country. What roles did Brazilian abolitionists play in slave emancipation in Brazil? To what extent slave resistance had a substantial impact in slave emancipation in Brazil?
ii. Analyze President John F. Kennedy, Alliance for Progress Discourse (1961). How and why did President Kennedy compare the histories of the American Revolution and the Spanish American revolutions in this discourse? What was the fundamental objective of President Kennedy's Alliance for Progress program?