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Decree 528 restricts entry of people described as Indigenous to Asia or Africa

📅 28 June 1890

Decree 528 declared entry generally open to people considered able to work, but excepted Indigenous people from Asia and Africa, who could enter only with authorization from Congress under...

Penal Code criminalizes “spiritism” and unauthorized healing

📅 11 October 1890

The republican Penal Code of 1890 made practices described by the state as spiritism, magic, or unauthorized healing punishable under provisions on public order and health. It did not name Candomblé...