Industrial Age · South America · Politics

1888

Brazil Abolition Aftermath

May 13, 1888

With the Lei Aurea signed and seven hundred thousand enslaved people freed, Brazil's plantation oligarchy turned furiously against the monarchy that had failed to compensate them. Imperial support collapsed within a year. Freedom for the enslaved had been bought, inadvertently, at the price of the Brazilian empire. The new republic offered the freed little enough.

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Also in 1888 (4 other events on record)

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Before and after in South America

Before: 1879: Pacific War Begins
After: November 15, 1889: Brazilian Republic Proclaimed

Before and after in Politics

Before: June 21, 1887: Victoria's Golden Jubilee
After: January 30, 1889: Mayerling Tragedy

Era

Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.