abolitionist and inventor,son of Antonio Pereira Reboucas (1798-1880) and Caroline Pinto Reboucas.Lawyer,member of Parliament (representing the state of Bahia) and an adviser to
Pedro II of Brazil,his daddy,was the son of a manumitted slave and
a Portuguese tailor.His brothers
Antonio Pereira Reboucas Filho and Jose Reboucas were also engineers.
Despite racial prejudice,racial prejudice,his daddy,a mulatto,
was an important and prestigious man at the time.Self-taught to read and write,he had been granted the right to practice law throughout the country represented Bahia in the House of Representatives on a range of legislature,was secretary of the Provincial Governship of Sergipe,advisior to the Empire, and had receive the title of Knight of the imperial order of the cross in 1823.
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