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> Thanks to him and his son, Brazil was the last country to abolish slavery. Dom Pedro I tried to abolish the slavery in the very beginning of our independence
by diegoholiveira 4y ago
> Thanks to him and his son, Brazil was the last country to abolish slavery.
Dom Pedro I tried to abolish the slavery in the very beginning of our independence. What stop him? The Congress. And he respected the congress because he wasn’t a dictator. The same thing happened with Dom Pedro II, who spent his life trying to end slavery.
People think that a monarch can do whatever he wants, but this is not true. Only dictators can do whatever they want.
- doliveira 4y agoWords are cheap, aren't they, and even then there weren't that many words. In practical terms, what remains is basically no action against slavery, apart from some externally-pressured laws just to keep up appearances. It literally is the origin of the expression "pra inglês ver" (for the English to see)
- diegoholiveira 4y agoIt was a different time. It’s easy to misjudge the past without fully understanding the context of that time.