18 September 1850
Land legislationSupplement
Brazil’s Land Law makes purchase central to public-land acquisition
Brazil; landless rural people, including later freed people
The law required purchase for most acquisition of public land while recognizing specified existing claims. Its importance here is the barrier that a cash-based land regime posed to people excluded from wealth and property.
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Context / qualification
The statute was not written as an explicit race-only prohibition; its connection to racial inequality is an interpretation of property access.