GK
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
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to work on the sugar plantations
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the build cities
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to clear land
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to mine gold and silver
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Detailed explanation-1: -Brazil was the world’s leading sugar exporter during the 17th century. From 1600 to 1650, sugar accounted for 95 percent of Brazil’s exports, and slave labor was relied heavily upon to provide the workforce to maintain these export earnings.
Detailed explanation-2: -On the Atlantic islands of the Azores, Madeira, and São Tomé, the Portuguese began plantation production of sugarcane using forced labor, a precedent for Brazil’s sugar production in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Detailed explanation-3: -The earliest record of sending African slaves to Brazil dates from 1533 when Pero de Gois, Captain-Mor da Costa of Brazil, requested the King, the shipment of 17 black people for his captaincy of São Tomé (Paraíba do Sul / Macaé).