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On this day — November 14

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Date Country Category Title
3 May 1888 Brazil History slavery Brasil Princess Regent Isabel’s opening address calls for ending slavery
23 April 1888 Brazil History slavery Brasil Clube do Cupim helps embark 119 people fleeing enslavement
18 March 1888 Brazil History slavery Brasil The paper calls for collective self-emancipation amid flight
10 March 1888 Brazil History slavery Brasil João Alfredo’s cabinet takes office as immediate abolition returns to the agenda
4 March 1888 Brazil History slavery Brasil The paper revisits the Penha do Rio do Peixe murder
1 March 1888 Brazil History slavery Brasil A Redempção reports the murder of abolitionist Joaquim Firmino
12 February 1888 Brazil History slavery Brasil Serra Negra “freedom” resolution requires continued service
29 January 1888 Brazil History slavery Brasil Abolitionist writing rejects the criminalization of escape
5 January 1888 Brazil History slavery Brasil The newspaper presents mass flight as breaking slaveholder control
25 October 1887 Brazil History slavery Brasil The Clube Militar asks that soldiers not hunt people escaping slavery
28 September 1887 Brazil History slavery Brasil José do Patrocínio launches the newspaper Cidade do Rio
18 September 1887 Brazil History slavery Brasil Satire attacks slave catchers and illegal re-enslavement
28 August 1887 Brazil History slavery Brasil A Caifaz letter celebrates resistance to a fugitive catcher
15 May 1887 Brazil History slavery Brasil A manumission report reveals unequal terms of freedom
4 April 1887 Brazil History slavery Brasil A Cupim list traces twenty-seven escapees from thirteen plantations
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