On 19 September 1761, an alvará prohibited transporting enslaved Black people from ports in the Americas, Africa, and Asia to mainland Portugal and declared those who arrived there free after the prescribed transition period. It applied to Portugal and the Algarve, not to Brazil, where slavery and slave trading continued. Its territorial limit exposes the unequal geography of imperial freedom: a person could be free on arrival in the metropole while remaining enslaved in the colony. This was also not a ban on the Atlantic trade into Brazil.
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