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free Black workers

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free Black workers

Gender: Male

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Bahia establishes capatazias to police street labor

📅 2 June 1835

Bahia Provincial Law no. 14 created capatazias to organize and supervise the urban ganho system. Enslaved workers hired out by the day or task carried goods, sold food, and performed services; many...