On 10 September 1611, the Crown enacted a law defining conditions under which Indigenous people could be captured in “just wars” and setting rules for their treatment and service. In practice, colonial actors could use warfare and legal classification to obtain coerced labor. The measure narrowed the 1609 declaration of freedom and demonstrates how colonial law repeatedly balanced settler demand for labor against Indigenous resistance and Crown efforts to regulate its empire.
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What did the 1611 law reopen?
The Companhia Geral do Comércio do Brasil was created exclusively as a slave-trading company.
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It organized protected commerce and shipping broadly, within a slave-based colonial economy.