On 14 October 1751, an alvará prohibited taking enslaved Africans to lands outside Portuguese dominion and regulated dispatches to Colônia do Sacramento and other frontier places. The measure treated enslaved people as controlled cargo and sought to protect imperial boundaries and trade interests. It did not end enslavement or the Atlantic traffic into Brazil. Read alongside the 1755 chartering of a privileged trading company, the law shows how the Crown regulated the geography of a slave economy while leaving the system itself intact.
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Did the 1751 alvará abolish slavery in Brazil?
The 1751 alvará ended slavery throughout Brazil.
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It regulated destinations and borders; it did not abolish slavery.