Mitchell, Michael2024-04-262024-04-261992https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/7512As the decade of the 1980s drew to a close Brazilians celebrated two centennials which bore a close chronological proximity to one another. In 1988 Brazilians commemorated the one hundredth anniversary of the abolition of slavery; the following year they observed a century's passage since the founding of Brazil's first republic.article