EVENT INFORMATION

28
Yanüari
1808

The Crown opens Brazilian ports to “friendly nations”

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📅 28 Yanüari 1808 📍 Brazil

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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Personanan den e suseso aki

João

prince regent

merchants

enslaved workers

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Portuguese Crown

Brazilian customs houses