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SUMMARY:Nuno Palma\, UoM: African Slavery and the Reckoning of Brazil
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DESCRIPTION:This talk is part of the seminar series of the Centre for Lat
 in American and Caribbean Studies.\n\nWed 8 Oct 2025\, 5pm (UK time). Th
 is event will be in person\, in Samuel Alexander Building\, room A112. I
 t can be followed online here: https://zoom.us/j/95860231166\n\nAbstract
 : More enslaved Africans disembarked in Brazil than in any other country
  in the New World. Using new archival data (over 12\,000 observations)\,
  we analyze the consequences of the slave trade. We build the first real
  wages and inequality series covering more than three centuries (1574 to
  1920) in Brazil\, and find that these were initially on a similar level
  to Europe\, but as the slave trade increased\, wages decreased and ineq
 uality increased. Real wages for unskilled workers became among the lowe
 st in the world\, and only recovered with the end of the slave trade. We
  use slave trade prohibition shocks (1808\, 1831\, and 1850) to estimate
  the causal effect of ending slave imports on wages and inequality. The 
 first prohibition led to an average increase of 24% in unskilled wages a
 nd a decrease of 25% in wage inequality\, while later prohibitions led t
 o even larger wage increases. We propose a mechanism suggesting that the
  slave trade affected longrun development through a labor market supply 
 channel. \n\nNuna Palma is Professor of Economics at the University of M
 anchester.
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LOCATION:A112\, Samuel Alexander Building\, Manchester
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