Timeline of Brazilian Slavery

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First Portugese Settlement in Brazil; Slavery Begins

1532

Slavery in Brazil

1532 - 1888

Slavery in the United States

1776 - 1865

British Abolition Act

1807

Brazilian Independence from Portugal

1822

Anglo-Brazilian Anti-slave Trade Treaty

1826

The Contraband Slave Trade

1831 - 1845

The Malê Revolt

1835

Suppression of Slave Trade in Brazil Begins

1850

Lei Áurea

1888