40 A view shared by the Jesuit jurist Alonso de Sandoval, the priest Ant? Vieira, the ‘humanist' Maur?o de Nassau and by many others in the 17th century (cf. Alencastro, Luiz Felipe de. O trato dos viventes: forma? do Brasil no Atl?ico Sul. S?Paulo: Cia. das Letras,2000, especially chapter 5). Even radical abolitionists like Joaquim Nabuco (O abolicionismo. Rio de Janeiro: Nova Fronteira, 1999, pp. 142-45) saw the African as a blemish left on the face of Brazilian nationality by the Portuguese.
