EVENT INFORMATION

14
Òktober
1751

A law restricts where enslaved people may be transported

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📅 14 Òktober 1751 📍 Brazil

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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🔖 Marká

Personanan den e suseso aki

enslaved Africans

Portuguese officials

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

Portuguese Crown

colonial ports

Colônia do Sacramento