An alvará extended privileges to small mines and protected mines, equipment, and enslaved workers from seizure by creditors under specified circumstances. Its language shows how the state secured an owner’s productive assets, including people held in bondage, to maintain mineral extraction. The legal text documents property claims, not workers’ consent or the knowledge they brought to mining.
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What does the 1813 alvará reveal?
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Enslaved workers were treated as part of the productive assets protected by the law.
The 1813 law treated enslaved workers as productive property within mining operations.
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The law’s protections applied to mines and included enslaved people in the secured assets.