Portugal e Brazil: emigração e colonisação

A critical examination of Portuguese emigration to Brazil, analyzing economic motives, wage comparisons, and the role of ambition and social conditions; it contrasts climates and disease risks, especially yellow fever and mortality, and explores proposed remedies, inspections, and colonization schemes in Alentejo. The author evaluates arguments of newspapers, emigration agents and shipping companies; compares costs of black and white labor and the agricultural impact of labor shortages; discusses legislation, consular reports, diplomatic disputes, press polemics, and specific incidents and trials in Pará. The work combines statistical, legal, and moral considerations to recommend practical reforms for managed emigration and settlement.