Internal Slave Trade to Rio de Janeiro, 1852

Compiled by Herbert S. Klein
Columbia University, New York
197?

From Register of Slaves, Police of the Imperial Court,
(Policia, Codice 397), Arquivo Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, 18 July 1852 to 17 November 1852

DPLS ed. 1978

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