Slavery and Free Work Force

in theEmpire Brazil

Capitalist Development

• English revolution

• Necessity of a consumer market

• Redirection of capital

Neocolonialism• British colonies in Africa

• Preservation of the work force

Comitments with the British

• D. Pedro Io Extinguish the slave trafic until 1830

• Bill Aberdeeno Prohibition of the slave trafic in the Atlanticoceano Hunt the slave smmuglers

• Eusébio de Queirós Lawo 1850o Prohibition of the slave trafico It did not stop

Slave Trafic Decay

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Series 1

Série 1

The Farmers Solution• Interprovincial Trafic

• Intraprovincial Trafic

European Imigration • A Bigger Coffee Demand

• Great dificulties in Europeo War spreado Unification wars

• Germany and Italyo Famine

• Partnership systemo 12% month interestso Brutal treatmento Low salarieso Revolts

• Subventioned Imigrationo Statal Imigrationo Regulation of the farmer/worker relationship

Lands Law• The rural oligarchy fears loosing its powers

• Laws on the purchaising of landso Prohibition of selling lands to foreignerso Costs on demarking the landso The costs should finance the subventioned imigration

The Abolitionist Movement

• Republican Party o In the states in which the Repblican party was strong they would

abolish slavery before the union would• Ceará and Amazonas

o 1884• Rio Grade do Sul

o 1885

• The Presso Journalists with modern ideaso Would help spread the word on abolitionism

• The Armyo Augusto Comte

• Positivismo Would refuse to hunt slaves

Abolition of Slavery• Free Womb Law

o 1871o Every child born from them on would be free

• Only after the its 21 years• During wich the child should work for his sustain

• Sexagenarian Lawo 1885o Slaves over the age of 65 should be free

• Of the interest of the farmers• It would release them of the obligation of taking care of their elderSlaves• It would also tranform them in beggars

Abolition of Slavery• Princess Isabel

o Regent Princess• During her father’s old age• A third empire?

• The Goldem Lawo 1888o Abolition of Slavery

• A Life of misery for the free slaveso Abrasion of the Empire