Historical Organization
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The government presents a gradual emancipation bill
📅 12 May 1871On 12 May 1871, the government’s proposal on the “servile element” entered the Senate’s legislative process. The bill proposed that children born to enslaved women after enactment be declared free,...
Perdigão Malheiro challenges the government’s emancipation proposal
📅 12 July 1871In a Chamber of Deputies speech dated 12 July 1871, abolitionist jurist and deputy Perdigão Malheiro criticized the government’s gradual emancipation proposal. The debate was not a simple division...
Jerônimo Sodré brings immediate abolition back into parliamentary debate
📅 5 March 1879On 5 March 1879, Bahian deputy Jerônimo Sodré Pereira spoke in the Chamber of Deputies against the continuation of slavery and placed abolition back on the national parliamentary agenda after years of...
The government submits an immediate abolition bill to the Chamber
📅 8 May 1888On 8 May 1888, Minister of Agriculture Rodrigo Augusto da Silva presented the government’s proposal for the complete abolition of slavery to the Chamber of Deputies. The bill moved rapidly in response...
The Chamber of Deputies approves the abolition bill
đź“… 10 May 1888On 10 May 1888, the Chamber of Deputies approved the proposal to abolish slavery. The rapid vote followed decades of Black resistance and a late-1880s surge in abolitionist mobilization. Parliamentary...