USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Eusébio de Queirós Law was a law passed in Brazil on September 4, 1850 to abolish international slave trade in the country. This law was named after Eusébio de Queirós Coutinho Matoso da Câmara, who was the Brazilian Minister of Justice from 1848–1852.

Detailed explanation-2: -The leading São Paulo coffee-planters-turned-railroad-builders were active in importing European laborers to take the place of the slave. The increasing demand for labor in an expanding coffee economy and the rise of urban groups dissatisfied with slavery as a system made abolition a necessity.

Detailed explanation-3: -Courtesy of Firestone Library. Brazil was built on the enslavement of indigenous peoples and millions of Black Africans. Of the 12 million enslaved Africans brought to the New World, almost half-5.5 million people-were forcibly taken to Brazil as early as 1540 and until the 1860s.

Detailed explanation-4: -DC Abolishes the Slave Trade. The United States Congress abolished the slave trade in the District of Columbia on September 20, 1850, as part of the legislative package called the Compromise of 1850. Since the founding of the District of Columbia in 1800, enslaved people had lived and worked in the nation’s capital.

Detailed explanation-5: -On May 13, 1888, Brazilian Princess Isabel of Bragança signed Imperial Law number 3, 353. Although it contained just 18 words, it is one of the most important pieces of legislation in Brazilian history. Called the “Golden Law, ” it abolished slavery in all its forms.