📅 20 March 1570
On 20 March 1570, the Portuguese Crown issued a law that nominally protected Indigenous freedom while allowing captivity in “just wars” and certain other exceptions. Those exceptions gave colonists...
📅 21 August 1587
On 21 August 1587, a royal order addressed the location of Indigenous communities near mills and estates. Mission settlements and proximity to colonial enterprises could make Indigenous labor,...
📅 11 November 1595
On 11 November 1595, a new law said Indigenous people could be captured only in wars specifically authorized by the Crown, while those captured by other means were to be free. The 1609 law later...
