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Brazil Ceases Official Celebration of Slavery Abolition

Brazil has reportedly stopped officially celebrating the abolition of slavery, with historians arguing that the Lei Áurea of 1888 legitimized an end that had already occurred socially, crediting the enslaved people themselves for their freedom.

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