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Brazilian Parliament

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Brazil adopts the Rio Branco Law on children born to enslaved women

đź“… 28 September 1871

Brazil’s Free Womb Law declared children born to enslaved women after the law’s passage legally free, while requiring them to remain with enslavers or state institutions for years. It was a gradualist...