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In 1863 Brazil was an empire under the emperor Pedro II of the house of Braganza. The area was estimated at 2.5m.-3m. sq. miles, the population at about 8m., of whom 2.5m. were Negro slaves belonging to about 40,000 proprietors, and 0.5m. Indians. The capital, Rio de Janeiro, had about 450,000 inhabitants.
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Steinberg, S.H. (1963). Brazil. In: Steinberg, S.H. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270923_33
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