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Unit 6
Grades 9-10
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Gradual Abolition: Free Womb Laws and the Patronato System

One of the most important things to understand about slavery's end in the Americas is that in several countries, especially Brazil and Cuba, "abolition" was not a single event but the final step of a decades-long, deliberately gradual process, designed specifically to protect…

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