Os Brasis na Histoire des Deux Indes do abade Raynal

Abstract

This article compares and analyzes the sections on Brazil in the 1770, 1774 and 1780 editions of Histoire philosophique des établissements et du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes, by Guillaume Thomas François Raynal. The aim is to contrast the ideas disseminated by the current historiography about this eighteenthcentury work, which was the most widely read of its time, with the judgments about Portuguese America that emerge in those editions. In effect, some issues stand out: first, the inhabitants and settlers of this new world, that is, Amerindians, then Blacks and Creole Portuguese -Brazilian-born settlers of Portuguese descent -and finally, its

A História das duas Índias e os colonizadores da América

“…As medidas "dividiram os espíritos", mas o texto inclina-se para a opinião de que os nativos, transformando-se em "senhores de suas ações", tenderiam a ser "superiores em inteligência e indústria aos mantidos em tutela perpétua" (RAYNAL, 1781, v. 5, p. 70-71). Eram decisões que poderiam redimir e regenerar um processo colonial perverso (FURTADO;MONTEIRO, 2016, p. 766-770). Os portugueses, com a política indigenista de Pombal, estavam reconhecendo e corrigindo seus "erros".…”