Snapshot · The Rest Is History
After Dom Pedro I was deposed in 1831, Brazil's national anthem had no agreed lyrics for roughly six decades, as political instability made consensus impossible.
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The 40 years of Dom Pedro II's reign are among the most consequential in Brazilian history. The country develops a sense of itself as a unique tropical civilisation distinct from Europe, fights the extraordinarily bloody War of the Triple Alliance against Paraguay (in which roughly a million people died), and in 1888 finally abolishes slavery — the last country in the Western Hemisphere to do so. Dom Pedro II himself is widely admired: a polymath who founds opera houses, corresponds with Richard Wagner, Louis Pasteur, and Victor Hugo, and earns the sobriquet 'the Louis XIV of the Tropics'. Yet throughout all of this, the anthem designed to give Brazil its voice remains stubbornly silent, a wordless melody played at court ceremonies with nobody willing to commit the country's fractured story to verse.
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