đź“… 15 January 1938
The new legislature replaced the Congress of Soviets and began operating under the 1936 constitution. Formal representation coexisted with party control over candidate selection and policy.
đź“… 12 July 1871
In 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...
đź“… 5 March 1879
On 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...
đź“… 8 May 1888
On 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...
đź“… 10 May 1888
On 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...
đź“… 13 July 1871
The agriculture minister discussed emancipation funds and the proposed free-birth measure. The fund offered a route to individual manumission, but it made freedom dependent on state quotas, valuation,...
đź“… 14 July 1871
Visconde do Rio Branco argued for a gradual measure that would keep the process within state institutions. His proposal answered pressure for change while seeking to limit disruption to...
đź“… 21 July 1871
The Chamber’s discussion continued to work through the consequences of declaring children free while retaining their labor. The legal category “ingênuo” did not mean full childhood autonomy:...
đź“… 31 July 1871
Rio Branco defended the measure in the Chamber, presenting it as a state-directed path to the end of slavery. The proposed framework promised change over decades and protected property interests in...
đź“… 9 August 1871
A session cited in the parliamentary annals records Perdigão Malheiro’s arguments in the emancipation debate. His participation shows disagreement within elite legal politics, though debate remained...
đź“… 22 August 1871
The Chamber’s session formed part of the continuing argument over when the proposed reform would actually end slavery. Gradual emancipation offered a projected future but left people enslaved in the...
