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Long title | An Act to amend an Act, intituled "An Act to carry into execution a Convention between His Majesty and the Emperor of Brazil, for the Regulation and final Abolition of the African Slave Trade." |
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Citation | 8 & 9 Vict. c. 122 |
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The Slave Trade (Brazil) Act 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 122), commonly known as the Aberdeen Act, was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed during the reign of Queen Victoria on 9 August 1845. The long title of the act is "An Act to amend an Act, intituled An Act to carry into execution a Convention between His Majesty and the Emperor of Brazil, for the Regulation and final Abolition of the African Slave Trade".
This law is seen in Brazilian historiography as a British retaliation against the Alves Branco Tariff, a tariff reform established in 1844 by Finance Minister Manuel Alves Branco that raised import duties[1][2] followed by the ending of the British-Brazilian Convention of 1826 on the Atlantic slave trade to Brazil.[1]