The alvará of 1 April 1808 revoked the 1785 restrictions on factories and manufacturing in Brazil. It opened legal space for workshops and industry during the transfer of the Portuguese court to Rio de Janeiro. This policy change did not change the legal status of enslaved people: owners could still compel their labor, and manufacturing remained embedded in a slaveholding society.
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What changed in 1808?
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The alvará lifted the 1785 restrictions; it did not change enslaved people’s legal status.
The 1808 manufacturing alvará emancipated enslaved workers employed in workshops.
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It revoked manufacturing restrictions but did not alter the legal status of enslaved people.