Nabuco - Nabuco (English spelling) Joaquim Nabuco

Brazilian diplomat and abolitionist. Born in Recife in the northeast of the country, he studied law in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Recife. He became a diplomat in 1876 and served in Washington and London before returning to Brazil in 1878 and being elected to the House of Representatives representing the state of Pernambuco. He was an eloquent speaker in Congress, and advocated unconditional abolition of slavery, the election of non-Catholics to the National Assembly, and direct suffrage. He lost the next election, traveled to London, joined the Abolitionist Society, and wrote and published "Emancipation of Slaves." He returned to Brazil in 1884 and was again elected to the House of Representatives, where he worked hard to abolish slavery. After slavery was abolished by the Golden Decree in 1888 and the empire he supported collapsed in the Republican Revolution the following year, he retired from politics and devoted himself to writing. In his later years, he contributed to the resolution of border disputes as a diplomat.

[Muneo Yamada]

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ブラジルの外交官、奴隷解放運動家。同国北東部のレシフェで生まれ、リオ・デ・ジャネイロ、サン・パウロ、レシフェで法学を学んだ。1876年外交官となり、ワシントン、ロンドンで勤務したのち、78年帰国してペルナンブコ州代表の下院議員に選出された。議会では雄弁を振るい、無条件の奴隷制廃止、非カトリック教徒の国会議員選出、直接選挙制などを主張した。次の選挙で落選し、ロンドンに渡り奴隷制廃止協会に加入し『奴隷解放論』を執筆、出版した。84年帰国し、ふたたび下院議員に選出され奴隷制廃止のため尽力した。88年の黄金令によって奴隷制が廃止され、また翌年の共和革命で彼の支持した帝政が崩壊すると、政治から引退し著作に専念した。晩年には外交官として国境紛争の解決に貢献した。

［山田睦男］

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