The Brazilian Parliament passes <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Branco_Law" id="mwgg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Rio Branco Law">a law</a> that frees all children thereafter born to slaves, and all government-owned slaves.<sup about="#mwt81" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-14"}}' id="cite_ref-14" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./September_28#cite_note-14" id="mwgw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 14;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwhA">[14]</span></a></sup>
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