Decree no. 708, dated 14 October 1850, established procedures connected to the suppression of the slave trade, including the treatment of vessels suspected of illegal importation. The decree translated the September law into enforcement machinery. Naval inspections and seizures could interrupt trafficking, but legal action against ships did not emancipate people held on plantations or in households. The archive records the state’s procedures more readily than the voices and journeys of captives.
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What did Decree 708 do?
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It helped turn the 1850 trade suppression law into enforcement procedures.