France battled with other European countries, such as Britain and Spain, for control of American colonies in the 18th century. After losing the Seven Years' War in 1763, France ceded all of its North American territories to Britain. France then turned to the slave trade, and became a major slave-trading nation in the 18th and 19th centuries. French slave traders captured and transported millions of Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas to be sold as slaves.
Washington Luis was considered the last president of the period that became known as the Old Republic. Washington created the free food markets Biography Born in Rio de Janeiro, in the city of Macaé, on October 26, 1869, however, he considered himself a paulista and made his political career in th
The Construction of Brasilia took place between 1956 and 1960. The move of the capital of Brazil, from Rio de Janeiro to the Central Plateau, required an enormous amount of financial, material and human resources. President Juscelino Kubitschek, however, used it as nationalist and modernist propaga
Among the factors that caused the Independence of Brazil we can highlight the crisis of the colonial system, the Enlightenment ideas and the independences that took place in English and Spanish America. Furthermore, the Brazilian agrarian elite itself would benefit from a separation between Portuga
The Law of Sexagenarians or Saraiva-Cotegipe Law (n.º 3.270), corresponds to one of the Abolitionist Laws, alongside the Eusébio de Queirós Law, the Free Womb Law and the Golden Law. It was enacted on September 28, 1885 and granted freedom to slaves aged 60 or over. Abstract In 1884 the Sexagenari