sentences:  José Bonifácio de Andrade e Silva is credited as the "Father of Brazilian Independence".Around 1822, "Representação" to the Constituent Assembly was published arguing for an end to the slave trade and for the gradual emancipation of existing slaves.Brazil's 1877–78 Grande Seca (Great Drought) in the cotton-growing northeast led to major turmoil, starvation, poverty and internal migration.