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Fabio Leite - Brazil, Syncretism and Being All Things at Once | WAWTAR #125

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Brazil and Slavery in the First Half of 19th Century

The colonial period has these crazy seeds, right? Where they just, everything's blown to the wind, but. Yeah. And anyway, so I mean, talking about this blending and slavery, I will start with slavery. Brazil abolished for good slavery in 1888. It was a Catholic princess, Princess Isabel. When she did that, she already had the majority of freed black people because the process in Brazil was gradual. So it was not that we had two blown slavery up to 1888.

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