On 28 January 1808, the Portuguese prince regent ordered Brazilian ports open to direct trade with Portugal’s friendly nations. The decree ended the colonial commercial monopoly, but it did not end slavery: export commerce, plantation production, and the Atlantic traffic in enslaved Africans continued to shape Brazil’s economy. The opening also redirected trade networks, including routes linking Brazilian ports to Africa. Read this as a reorganization of empire and commerce, not as emancipation.
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The Carta Régia opened Brazilian ports to direct foreign trade with friendly nations.