Decree 641 authorized railway concessions and required the concession company not to own enslaved people or employ them in construction and railway operation. This clause made the project a legally designated free-labor sector within an economy still sustained by slavery. Railway construction connected ports and inland production; the boundary in the decree did not end enslaved labor in coffee, mining, or other sectors.
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What did Decree 641 require railway concessionaires to do?
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The concession specified free workers for construction and operation.
The 1852 railway decree required concessionaires not to employ enslaved people in railway construction and operation.
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That was a condition of the concession, although slavery continued in other sectors.