📅 15 Yanüari 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.
📅 12 Yüli 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...
📅 5 Mart 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...
📅 8 Mei 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...
📅 10 Mei 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...
📅 13 Yüli 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,...
📅 14 Yüli 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...
📅 21 Yüli 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:...
📅 31 Yüli 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...
📅 9 Ougùstùs 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...
📅 22 Ougùstùs 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...
