On 5 March 1879, Bahian deputy Jerônimo Sodré Pereira spoke in the Chamber of Deputies against the continuation of slavery and placed abolition back on the national parliamentary agenda after years of gradual reform. Contemporary and later accounts describe the speech as a catalyst, not the sole origin of the movement. Enslaved people’s flight, organizing, litigation, and everyday resistance had long contested slavery; parliamentary voices entered a struggle already underway.
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What did Jerônimo Sodré’s 1879 speech do?
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It placed abolition back on the political agenda, within a struggle already advanced by enslaved people and activists.
Sodré’s 1879 speech returned abolition to parliamentary debate.
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The speech placed immediate abolition back on the parliamentary agenda.