DBWI Brazil ends slavery

Brazil is pretty much the only country on the planet that still allows and has legal slavery. Dispite all of the revolts, runaways, and other issues it still refuses to end the practice, but I have discovered that there was serious discussion about ending it during the 1800s so what if it happened?

What would brazil look like today and how would that change south america and the world?
 
Though an awkward anomaly, in Brazil's defense slavery there has gotten pretty laid back, with the standard practice of manumitting elderly slaves, and the possibility of slaves buying their freedom earlier.

I wonder if Brazil would have used immigrants for its cheap labor fix. Neighboring Argentina wound up getting tons of immigrants.
 
It probably wouldn't be as politically isolated and a lot more stable, without the slave rebellions that nearly tore the country apart in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
 
Ending slavery would end the Empire. We would be like Argentina and Bolivia with their endless revolutions and could.

If the Empire died, the North Americans would dominate the entire Hemispherr
 
It probably wouldn't be as politically isolated and a lot more stable, without the slave rebellions that nearly tore the country apart in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Don't forget the rebellion of 62-67....whole lot of people died in that one.

As for Isolated, the amount of love that Brazil gets in far right press gets cringy, expecially in the american south, We call em brazil nuts but Im told that the UK, South africans, and germans have their version of Brazil fanboys.
 
Ending slavery would end the Empire. We would be like Argentina and Bolivia with their endless revolutions and could.

If the Empire died, the North Americans would dominate the entire Hemispherr

The problem with that is that the imperial family was anti-slavary from the start,in OTL it was the slaveowners who brought down the empire.
 
They might not be completely isolated, for starters, which would have a huge effect on the coffee and chocolate markets. The only countries that buy from them are isolationist right wing dictatorships like the rump Japanese Empire; some countries, like the German Empire, are currently funding the escaped slave rebel movements in the Amazon. Honestly the Porto regime is running on its own fumes these days, but hey, that's what we were saying 20 years ago.
 
Brazil is pretty much the only country on the planet that still allows and has legal slavery. Dispite all of the revolts, runaways, and other issues it still refuses to end the practice, but I have discovered that there was serious discussion about ending it during the 1800s so what if it happened?

What would brazil look like today and how would that change south america and the world?

This much can be said, at least: it's unlikely that Brazil would be the badly screwed up Third Tier hellhole that it is IOTL. There also probably wouldn't be quite as large of a Brazilian diaspora as there is in our world, either(5 million Brazilian Americans according to the 2010 U.S. Census.), and the small Brazilian population in the rump Japanese Empire-mainly Karafuto and the Kuril/Chishima Islands-might not exist at all.

They might not be completely isolated, for starters, which would have a huge effect on the coffee and chocolate markets. The only countries that buy from them are isolationist right wing dictatorships like the rump Japanese Empire; some countries, like the German Empire, are currently funding the escaped slave rebel movements in the Amazon. Honestly the Porto regime is running on its own fumes these days, but hey, that's what we were saying 20 years ago.

What's ironic about all this, though? Germany was an ally-sometimes staunchly so-of the Brazilians from 1893(not out of any particular love of slavery, but to spite the French and the Italians-particularly after persecutions of Protestants in Argentina and Paraguay in particular; both nations were the biggest friends of France + Italy, though Venezuela and Ecuador were close seconds) right up until the Leverkusen Spring in '66.....and the Japanese were actually helping to fund slave revolts and the like up from the turn of the last century up until the coup in 1930.
 
What's ironic about all this, though? Germany was an ally-sometimes staunchly so-of the Brazilians from 1893(not out of any particular love of slavery, but to spite the French and the Italians-particularly after persecutions of Protestants in Argentina and Paraguay in particular; both nations were the biggest friends of France + Italy, though Venezuela and Ecuador were close seconds) right up until the Leverkusen Spring in '66.....and the Japanese were actually helping to fund slave revolts and the like up from the turn of the last century up until the coup in 1930.
Well, hey, that's what getting the Kodoha and their insane racial ideas in power does for you... they justified it by putting Blacks on the level of Koreans in terms of "inferiority" and then called the Brazillians "honorary Yamato". I would argue, also, that while the Leverkusen protests were the big thing that got Germany to finally fully cut off Brazil, they had been gradually drifting away since the 40s; after all, when Japan, who you're currently fighting the Great East Asian War with, is supporting the slavers, it's a good idea to at least slow support for them. All realplitik, of course.
 
Its not really 'slavery', but more like a very odd version of serfdom when you look at it.

The leadership of Brazil is one that always beats the odds. No one, but the higher ups what slavery, but they refuse to give it up for one reason, or another.

But even now, the military regime may in fact be out of power soon.
 
I wonder what race relations in the US would be like without the flight of many Southerners to Brazil?

I don't know if it would be better or worse, but the tendency of old racist southern white people to retire to brazil is well known, and quite frankly just a little creepy.
 
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