December 20, 1778 - Nicolau Pereira de Campos Vergueiro

Nicolau Pereira de Campos Vergueiro, better known as Senator Vergueiro (Portuguese: Senador Vergueiro; 20 December 1778 – 17 September 1859), was a Portuguese-born Brazilian coffee farmer and politician and slave trader. He was a pioneer in the implementation of a free workforce, as opposed to slavery, in Brazil by bringing the first European immigrants to work in the Ibicaba farm, which he owned.

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