A royal charter approved statutes for the Cuiabá Mining Company. Shareholders were required to supply the enslaved laborers they had promised, or provide substitutes under the company rules; a failure could cost them profits. The arrangement made human beings a contractual input to a corporate mining venture and shows how investors pooled capital and coerced labor across distance.
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What did the Cuiabá Mining Company charter require from shareholders?
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The company statutes treated enslaved workers as a required input to the venture.