Paper short abstract:

The objective of this work is to study the European vision on the introduction of Africans in Brazil tropical nineteenth century, thereby addressing the impact of climate and racial prejudices in a country formed by mestizos and distinctly tropical.

Paper long abstract:

History has always been cruel to the tropical climate, accusing him of being less than temperate climate, because it was in the middle latitudes that generated those that have long dominated the writing of history and the processes of colonization: the Europeans. That same feeling, Africans and Indians also suffered with the History, being long viewed as inferior peoples, averse to progress and civilization, in the eyes of those who dominated the writing of History.

Our work aims to study the visions about Brazil in the nineteenth century, a country marked by the presence of both the climate and the races disqualified in the period, with reference to Africans, one of the main bases of the formation of the Brazilian population. In that sense, we try to assess how the introduction of tropical Africans in Brazil was seen and debated within the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by Europeans who passed through those lands and left their impressions, showing the effects of introducing people as a sort of "defect "source which mingled with European settlers, hailed as the bridge between a tropical Brazil doomed to failure and a successful European civilizational hope, based on the introduction of strong and stiff settlers of temperate lands.

It should also analyze in this work as in the case of Africans, the issue of race also helped to build the images on these people in Brazilian society, and how they would transform this society forever.