Historical Person

Segismundo Moret

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📍 Spain

Segismundo Moret

Gender: Male

Related Events

Spain enacts the Moret Law for gradual emancipation

📅 4 July 1870

The law freed children born to enslaved mothers after its enactment and some older people, while placing others in a patronato system of coerced labor. It was a limited step shaped by abolitionist...