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enslaved and freed men

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enslaved and freed men

Gender: Male

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The Empire creates the Voluntários da Pátria corps

📅 7 January 1865

Decree no. 3,371 of 7 January 1865 organized volunteer battalions for the war against Paraguay. The call to arms unfolded within a slaveholding empire: military service offered some enslaved men a...