EVENT INFORMATION

18
Sèptèmber
1850

The Land Law makes purchase the principal route to public land

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📅 18 Sèptèmber 1850 📍 Brazil

Law no. 601 of 18 September 1850 defined rules for public lands and regularizing existing occupation. It restricted new land claims through occupation alone and made purchase central to access to public lands. The law did not explicitly name Black people as its sole target, but in a society where formerly enslaved people had little capital and Indigenous communities faced state encroachment, market-based access favored wealthy landholders and strengthened concentrated property. It must be read alongside the end of the transatlantic slave trade and elite efforts to organize land and labor.

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Personanan den e suseso aki

Landholders

small cultivators

Indigenous communities

enslaved and freed Black people

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

Empire of Brazil

Imperial government

public land administration