EVENT INFORMATION

14
Novèmber
1850

A new decree regulates implementation of the 1850 trade law

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📅 14 Novèmber 1850 📍 Brazil

Decree no. 731 of 14 November 1850 provided additional implementation rules for Law no. 581. Its place in the rapid sequence of regulations shows the imperial government building administrative capacity to restrict Atlantic importation. This shift curtailed a major route by which enslavers replenished their labor force while leaving the internal slave regime intact. The law’s enforcement was gradual and contested, and freedom for those already enslaved was not its object.

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Personanan den e suseso aki

enslaved Africans

imperial administrators

shipowners

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

Empire of Brazil

Imperial ministries

customs authorities