Abstract:For Reginald Heber, reviewer of Robert Southey's History of Brazil in the Quarterly Review, one of the most "striking" parts of Southey's narrative was that the Portuguese fostered intermarriage in their colonial territories, instead of promoting segregation. Depictions of intermarriage in the text are in fact abundant but remain understudied, even amongst several recent outstanding publications on Southey and imperialism. In this essay, I analyze one of these depictions of intermarriage: the quilombo of Palma… Show more
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