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22
Yanüari
1815

A treaty bans Portuguese slave trading north of the Equator

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📅 22 Yanüari 1815 📍 Brazil

On 22 January 1815, Portugal and Britain signed a treaty prohibiting Portuguese subjects from trading enslaved people along the African coast north of the Equator. The measure constrained a portion of the trade while leaving Portuguese trafficking south of the Equator legal for the time being. It was a diplomatic restriction on the supply system, not emancipation in Brazil; the treaty’s geographic limits and enforcement arrangements reflected negotiations between imperial powers rather than the consent of Africans subjected to the trade.

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Portuguese and British negotiators

African communities targeted by the trade

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Portuguese Crown

British Crown