USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In the fifteenth century, Portugal became the first European nation to take significant part in African slave trading. The Portuguese primarily acquired slaves for labor on Atlantic African island plantations, and later for plantations in Brazil and the Caribbean, though they also sent a small number to Europe.

Detailed explanation-2: -While Indigenous people provided a steady stream of slave labor to early colonists, most notably in the Jesuit aldeias, by the mid-sixteenth century the Portuguese were importing enslaved Africans in substantial numbers to work in new, permanent sugar colonies.

Detailed explanation-3: -Despite the large influx of Islamic slaves, most of the slaves in Brazil were brought from the Bantu regions of the Atlantic coast of Africa where today Congo and Angola are located, and also from Mozambique.

Detailed explanation-4: -Transportation systems for moving wealth were developed, and cattle ranching and foodstuff production expanded after the decline of the mining industries in the second half of the 18th century. Between 1700 and 1800, 1.7 million slaves were brought to Brazil from Africa to make this sweeping growth possible.

Detailed explanation-5: -Brazil was built on the enslavement of indigenous peoples and millions of Black Africans. Of the 12 million enslaved Africans brought to the New World, almost half-5.5 million people-were forcibly taken to Brazil as early as 1540 and until the 1860s.