(SLAVERY & ABOLITION--BRAZIL.) Broadsheet printing of the decree which freed the enslaved of

(SLAVERY & ABOLITION--BRAZIL.) Broadsheet printing of the decree which freed the enslaved of Brazil--at age 60. 2 pages, 13 x 8½ inches, on one sheet, titled "Ministerio dos Negocios da Agricultura" (the issuing agency) and signed in type by Antonio da Silva Prado as president of the state of Sergipe; minor wear and light wrinkling. Rio de Janeiro, 23 December 1885 In 1885, Brazil and Cuba were the last nations which continued in the practice of slavery. On 28 September of that year, Brazil passed this feeble half-measure toward emancipation, the Saraiva-Cotegipe Law, which offered provisional freedom to all enslaved people upon reaching the age of 60, and forbid the sale of slaves across state lines. Brazil did not completely end slavery until 1888. We find no other examples of this printing, a circular issued by Brazil's Ministry of Agricultural Affairs.