EVENT INFORMATION

8
Yüli
1819

A royal alvará defines enslaved people as part of a mine’s protected assets

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📅 8 Yüli 1819 📍 Brazil

The alvará of 8 July 1819 clarified that a mine’s protected productive property could include enslaved workers, homes, mills, food stores, and draft animals. This legal framing preserved the owner’s labor supply and mining operation in disputes over debts. It reveals the state’s investment in extraction while the people whose labor sustained it remained denied control over their work and lives.

Inisiá sesion pa gusta òf marká e relato aki.
🔖 Marká

Personanan den e suseso aki

enslaved miners

mine owners

creditors

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

Portuguese Crown

mining administration