The Steps to the Abolition of Slavery in Brazil
As of the Industrial Revolution, which began in England (1760), self-employed labor was no longer a consumer of industrialized products. This was one of the reasons why, mainly, England started to oppose the slave system in other countries. This, because it was a consumer market not served by its manufactures.
In the century. XIX, Brazil was a great center of African slaves. Many Portuguese-Brazilians worked in the maritime slave trade.
There was a sequence of four Laws until the ABOLITION OF SLAVERY IN BRAZIL, in 1888.
Ban on the Black Traffic (1850)
Free Womb Law (1871)
He decreed that all the children of slaves born in Brazil after 1871 would be considered free, but the slave’s owner would have options to grant freedom:
- releasing him at the age of eight, he would receive an indemnity of 600 milreis.
- freeing him at age 21, he would receive no compensation.
Sexagenarian Law (1885)
Also known as the Saraiva-Cotegipe Law, it decreed that all slaves aged 60 or over would be freed, but should work for 3s years to compensate their master. In addition, it established that these slaves could not change their province and should establish residence in the municipality where they were freed for five years.
Golden Law (1888)
On May 13, 1888, in a brief decree of two articles, the Imperial Princess Regent, on behalf of Her Majesty the Emperor, Lord D. Pedro II, makes known to all the subjects of the Empire that the General Assembly and she sanctioned the law, which ended slavery in Brazil.
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