Historical Organization
Conselho de Estado
Conselho de Estado
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Council of State begins reviewing an emancipation draft
📅 16 April 1868The Council of State considered a draft prepared by a commission drawing on Pimenta Bueno’s proposals and Nabuco de Araújo’s legal work. The question was how the imperial state would manage the end of...
Council members debate the legal rupture of “partus sequitur ventrem”
📅 23 April 1868Council of State deliberations continued over a proposal that would break the inherited rule that a child followed the enslaved status of the mother. That principle made enslaved women’s...
The Council weighs freedom at birth against slaveholder property claims
📅 30 April 1868In a further session on the emancipation project, councillors confronted whether children born to enslaved women could be treated as free without compensating owners. The dispute exposed slavery’s...
The Council of State advances a controlled emancipation plan
📅 7 May 1868Council members continued examining the draft that later informed the Free Womb proposal. The reform’s design tried to reconcile a claimed future of freedom with the protection of property and labor...