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When Brazil declared independence from Portugal in 1822, there was some demand from Angola to go with Brazil rather than stay with Portugal.
Brazil had after all, rather than Portugal, been the capital of the Portuguese Empire from 1808 to 1820 and had always had close trading (slaves) and military links to Angola (it had been Brazilian not Portuguese troops who'd reconquered it from the Dutch way back in the 17th century).
But the peace treaty with Portugal, signed in 1825, explicitly forbid Brazilian takeover of Portuguese African colonies, thanks partly from pressure from the UK who were worried about a colony being transferred from an old ally to an unknown and potentially more powerful South Atlantic empire.
A little after that in the 1830s, the Kingdom of Dahomey under Ghezo, who employed a brazilian slave trader as basically his minister of trade, sounded out the Brazilian government on a proposal to man the abandoned Portuguese port in Whydah and establish some kind of lose alliance/protectorate relationship to protect them from the British or the French.
Brazil turned him down, obviously. During the 1820-30s there doesn't really seem to have been any major ambitions among the Brazilians to expand into Africa.
But in terms of AH, what do you need to change in Brazil for one of those two plans to go ahead and what does Western Africa look like in this scenario?
Brazil had after all, rather than Portugal, been the capital of the Portuguese Empire from 1808 to 1820 and had always had close trading (slaves) and military links to Angola (it had been Brazilian not Portuguese troops who'd reconquered it from the Dutch way back in the 17th century).
But the peace treaty with Portugal, signed in 1825, explicitly forbid Brazilian takeover of Portuguese African colonies, thanks partly from pressure from the UK who were worried about a colony being transferred from an old ally to an unknown and potentially more powerful South Atlantic empire.
A little after that in the 1830s, the Kingdom of Dahomey under Ghezo, who employed a brazilian slave trader as basically his minister of trade, sounded out the Brazilian government on a proposal to man the abandoned Portuguese port in Whydah and establish some kind of lose alliance/protectorate relationship to protect them from the British or the French.
Brazil turned him down, obviously. During the 1820-30s there doesn't really seem to have been any major ambitions among the Brazilians to expand into Africa.
But in terms of AH, what do you need to change in Brazil for one of those two plans to go ahead and what does Western Africa look like in this scenario?