BRAZIL: FROM THE EMPIRE TO THE REPUBLIC
After ten years of government, and discredited by the war setbacks during the Argentine-Brazilian wars, in which Uruguay was lost, the emperor of Brazil, Peter I, abdicated in 1831. After interim governments exercised by regents, his son Pedro II has crowned emperor at fourteen years of age. He governed for 58 years (1831-1889), which gave great stability to Brazil and allowed it to extend its borders inward and develop with exports of Sugar, coffee and livestock, and early industrialization. Slavery was only abolished in 1888 (40 years after other South American countries).
