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Indigenous peoples of Brazil

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Indigenous peoples of Brazil

Gender: Male

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The Crown extends Indigenous freedom laws to Brazil

📅 8 May 1758

On 8 May 1758, an alvará extended the 1755 laws on Indigenous freedom from Grão-Pará and Maranhão to the wider State of Brazil. The legal extension stated that Indigenous people were free subjects...