This document essentially made former slaves into "servants" or serviçais, who had to be "contracted" into labor.  The Regulamento also stipulated that any Angolans who were not fully employed were considered "vagrants" and could be legally forced into five-year contracts.  While slaves were no longer exportable commodities on the same scale they were before the abolition of the slave trade, slavery persisted in much the same way it had in the past centuries, despite the change in nomenclature. 