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The article deals with the diplomacy of the slave trade, the single most important and most contentious foreign polichy issue at the beginning of the Brazilian Empire. Great Britain's commitment to extirpate the "nefarious trade": pitted that country against Brazil's slave traders and landowners.||The article deals with the diplomacy of the slave trade, the single most important and most contentious foreign polichy issue at the beginning of the Brazilian Empire. Great Britain's commitment to extirpate the "nefarious trade": pitted that country against Brazil's slave traders and landowners.||O artigo trata da “diplomacia” do tráfico, o mais importante contencioso externo na fase inicial do Império, reconstituindo os principais atos de política externa e as negociações com a Grã-Bretanha, cuja vontade de extirpar o “nefando comércio” confrontou-se aos interesses econômicos dos traficantes e da classe proprietária no Brasil.
