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In 1808, the Prince Regent of Portugal fled his country ahead of Napoleon's armies and established a government-in-exile in Brazil. His thirteen years there would transform the colony into a new imperial capital, and when he eventually boarded a ship to assume the throne in Lisbon, he handed rule of Brazil off to his son Pedro I not as a colony, but as a kingdom. Thus began the formative period of Brazilian independence, as the new nation—under Pedro I, and later his son Pedro II—engaged in trade, wars, and a cultural awakening that would make Brazil not only the most powerful and stable Latin American nation of its time, but define much of what it is today. But though a constitutional monarchy rich in civil liberties, slavery still ruled, and military and political leaders increasingly plotted revolution. And as Pedro II aged without an heir, it was an open question whether the second King of Brazil would be its last...