Many of these writers were abolitionists that included Castro Alves, Joaquim Nabuco, Joaquim Manuel de Macedo, and Naturalist writers that included Aluísio Azevedo, Jose Veríssimo, and Raul Pompéia.
Writing at the end of the 19th century, the Brazilian abolitionist leader Joaquim Nabuco said that Rio Branco was—of all the politicians who held the office during Pedro II's reign—the most fitted to the post of President of the Council of Ministers.
Joaquim Sapinho | Joaquim Nabuco | Joaquim Barbosa | Joaquim Rodríguez | Joaquim Pacheco | Joaquim Dinis | Joaquim de Almeida | Joaquim Chissano | Francisco Joaquim Ferreira do Amaral | Joaquim Rodriguez | Joaquim Nadal i Farreras | Joaquim Maria Puyal | Joaquim Machado de Castro | Joaquim Guedes | Joaquim Felício | Joaquim Dos Santos | Joaquim Augusto Mouzinho de Albuquerque | Joaquim Arcoverde de Albuquerque Cavalcanti | Joaquim Abranches |
He became a Law teacher at the Faculdade de Direito do Recife during 1854-1858, where he taught and heavily influenced Castro Alves, Salvador de Mendonça, Joaquim Nabuco, Afonso Pena and Ruy Barbosa.