{"record":{"aliases":["Barão de Japurá"],"appointmentIds":["brazil-4bc036244cb9c3"],"appointmentsDataset":"https://chanceries.org/diplomats.json","archivalSources":["lisboa-itamaraty"],"canonicalUrl":"https://chanceries.org/diplopedia/people/miguel-maria-lisboa-96d2a4796b/","countrySlug":"brazil","entityId":"https://chanceries.org/diplopedia/people/miguel-maria-lisboa-96d2a4796b/#person","eventIds":[],"expandedParagraphs":["Miguel Maria Lisboa, Baron of Japurá, was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1809 and studied at Edinburgh. His diplomatic career took him through Britain, Chile, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, New Granada, and Peru. He sent agricultural writings, plants, and seeds to Brazil’s Sociedade Auxiliadora da Indústria Nacional.","In Washington during the American Civil War, Lisboa examined how the conflict would affect Brazil's slaveholding economy. He monitored tariffs on coffee and warned that emancipation in the United States would isolate the remaining slave societies of the Americas. His concern initially centered on protecting the imperial social order.","Historian Alain El Youssef connects Lisboa’s reports to Brazil’s gradual emancipation debate. Pedro II recommended them to ministers, and Lisboa drafted a proposal in 1864 to free children born to enslaved mothers after a future date. It was not enacted as written. El Youssef places it within the process leading to the Free Womb Law of 1871.","Lisboa also wrote about his travels. His Relação de uma viagem a Venezuela, Nova Granada e Equador appeared in 1866, recording observations from earlier missions. He later represented Brazil in Portugal and died in Lisbon in 1881."],"id":"brazil:miguel maria lisboa","identifiers":{},"legacyPersonIds":[],"legacyUrl":"https://chanceries.org/diplomat-96d2a4796b85fa78df38.html","name":"Miguel Maria Lisboa","notes":[],"paragraphSources":[["ufsc","lisboa-itamaraty","youssef"],["youssef"],["youssef"],["ufsc"]],"profileUrl":"diplomat-96d2a4796b85fa78df38.html","relatedEvents":[],"relatedPeople":[],"relationships":[],"researchStatus":"reviewed","reviewedOn":"2026-10-28","revision":"11e5399b129ff237","sources":[{"accessedOn":"2026-10-28","date":"2016","id":"youssef","locator":"pp. 29–49","publisher":"FUNAG, Cadernos do CHDD 29","title":"Alain El Youssef, Miguel Maria Lisboa: escravidão, geopolítica global e economia imperial durante a Guerra Civil norte-americana (1860–1871)","type":"scholarship","url":"https://funag.gov.br/loja/download/1201-Caderno_29_21_06_v_5.pdf"},{"accessedOn":"2026-10-28","date":"","id":"ufsc","locator":"Named person-specific section or complete entry","publisher":"Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina","title":"Miguel Maria Lisboa: author bibliography","type":"reference","url":"https://literaturabrasileira.ufsc.br/autores?id=17259"},{"accessedOn":"2026-10-28","date":"","id":"lisboa-itamaraty","locator":"Record RIO-AHI-SNEIB-FIM-TRA-BiLat--P08-M02_001_1853-07-25; biographical description","publisher":"Arquivo Histórico do Itamaraty","title":"Miguel Maria Lisboa: career description and 1853 New Granada treaty","type":"archive","url":"https://atom.itamaraty.gov.br/index.php/informationobject/browse?collection=465&creators=35068&languages=pt&repos=35111&sf_culture=en&sort=endDate&sortDir=asc&topLod=0&view=table"},{"accessedOn":"","date":"Accessed 22 October 2026","id":"mission-62664b5e08dd6454fab5","locator":"Barbosa’s own account of embassy support for Projeto Resgate.","publisher":"","title":"Rubens Barbosa: archival-recovery initiative, foreword pp. 30–31","type":"Mission record","url":"https://funag.gov.br/loja/download/753-guia_dos_arquivos_americanos.pdf"},{"accessedOn":"","date":"","id":"mission-4a7db01ca9376d919aaa","locator":"","publisher":"","title":"Miguel Maria Lisboa — mission record (1859–1864)","type":"Mission record","url":"https://funag.gov.br/biblioteca-nova/produto/loc_pdf/345/1/monarquia_e_a_republica:_aspectos_das_relacoes_entre_brasil_e_estados_unidos_durante_o_imperio_a"},{"accessedOn":"","date":"Accessed 26 October 2026","id":"mission-fc4375c1c92978eed672","locator":"","publisher":"","title":"Historical representation: Empire of Brazil","type":"Mission record","url":"https://www.camara.leg.br/noticias/91674-saiba-quais-sao-as-12-bandeiras-historicas-do-brasil/"},{"accessedOn":"","date":"Accessed 26 October 2026","id":"mission-759fca5789687b8b2893","locator":"","publisher":"","title":"Historical representation: Empire of Brazil","type":"Mission record","url":"https://funag.gov.br/loja/download/legacoes_embaixadas.pdf"}],"topics":["slavery","American Civil War","coffee trade","river navigation","travel writing"]},"schemaVersion":1}