Inventor database
Documented
André Rebouças
Brazilian military engineer and abolitionist
At a glance
- Inventor
- André Rebouças
- Life
- 1838–1898
- Birthplace
- Cachoeira, Bahia
- Country
- Brazil
- Region
- South America
- Era
- 1800s
- Fields
- Architecture & Infrastructure, Science & Engineering
- Evidence
- Documented
- Records
- 0 in this archive
What they did
Rebouças, grandson of an enslaved woman, engineered port works, water supply systems and railways in imperial Brazil, and was a leading figure in the abolitionist movement.
Historical context
Brazil was the last country in the Americas to abolish slavery, in 1888. Rebouças argued for abolition combined with land reform.
The legacy
His port and sanitation engineering shaped Rio de Janeiro and Bahia; he went into exile with the imperial family after the 1889 coup.
The evidence
André Rebouças diaries and engineering papers