EVENT INFORMATION

28
Desèmber
1853

The Empire defines the status of Africans completing compulsory service

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📅 28 Desèmber 1853 📍 Brazil

Decree 1303 provided that Africans who completed the prescribed fourteen-year service could seek emancipation, while also directing where they could reside and that they take paid work or service. This was a constrained route out of state-assigned labor, not ordinary freedom of movement. The decree illustrates how the category of “free African” could coexist with official control over residence and occupation.

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Personanan den e suseso aki

Africans in compulsory service

provincial presidents

employers

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

Imperial government