... discussing Enlightenment ideas in Portuguese America is how did the ideas get there? Brazil had no printing presses and no universities, unlike Spanish America and English America. The answer is young colonists went to Portugal to study, mostly all of them went to the university of Coimbra, the most famous and influential university in Portugal. Between 1772 - 1785 around 300 Brazilian born ... the end of the "detestable metropolitan yoke of Portugal", and the abolition of slavery and equality of all citizens, especially mulattoes and blacks. They wished their government to be "democrat...

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