On 25 March 1824, Pedro I imposed Brazil’s first constitution. It defined political membership and rights while leaving slavery intact; its language of citizenship did not make enslaved people free or equal participants in the polity. The constitution consolidated an independent empire whose economy and elite wealth depended on enslaved labor. Reading the document alongside the lives of enslaved people exposes the gap between liberal state-building and racialized exclusion.
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