Born Then1800–1888
Life during the Slavery in Brazil
Be born in a place it hit, a few years before it began, and see what it did to five ordinary lives.
What it meant for ordinary people
Brazil imported more enslaved Africans than any other country and was the last in the Americas to end slavery, with the Golden Law of 13 May 1888. The import trade stopped in 1850 and the Free Womb Law of 1871 freed children born after it. In the simulation the chance of being enslaved is an average; in 1800 nearly half the population was enslaved, by 1887 about 5 percent.
Deaths: about 1.5 million people were still enslaved in 1872.
How hard it hits each person in the game (risk of death, of being conscripted, of leaving) comes from recorded statistics.
Around the same time
- Indian Ocean slave trade 700–1799
- Atlantic slave trade (West Africa) 1501–1799
- Atlantic slave trade (Kongo and Angola) 1514–1799
- Plantation slavery in Brazil 1550–1799
- Tokugawa peace 1603–1780
- Sugar slavery in the Caribbean 1640–1799
- Slavery in the British North American colonies 1660–1799
- Spanish missions in California 1769–1799
- Great Tenmei famine 1782–1788
- Laki haze and the cold winter of 1783–1784 1783–1784
- Laki eruption and the Haze Famine 1783–1785
- Smallpox epidemic around Sydney 1789–1790
- Atlantic slave trade, final decades 1800–1866
- Slavery in the United States 1800–1865
- Slavery in Brazil 1800–1888
- Serfdom in the Russian Empire 1800–1861
- Napoleonic Wars 1803–1815
- Fulani War and the Sokoto Caliphate 1804–1808
- Spanish American wars of independence 1808–1826
- Eruption of Mount Tambora 1815–1816
- British emigration to the colonies and America 1815–1913
- Year Without a Summer 1816–1817
- First cholera pandemic 1817–1824
- Java War 1825–1830
- Cultivation System in Java 1830–1870
- Abolition of slavery in the British Empire 1834–1838
- Indian indenture system 1834–1917
- First Opium War 1839–1842
- German emigration to the Americas 1840–1893
- Great Famine in Ireland 1845–1852