Decree no. 4,835 of 1 December 1871 regulated a special register of enslaved people and children legally classified as freeborn under the September law. Registration could help administer a gradual transition, but it also gave officials and enslavers a tool to assert and document control. Errors, omissions, and local power shaped whose status the records recognized. The decree exposes a central tension in gradual emancipation: bureaucratic pathways to freedom could also prolong surveillance and labor claims.
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What did Decree 4,835 regulate?
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The decree regulated registration under the gradual transition established in 1871.