USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -For 350 years, slavery was the heart of the Brazilian economy. According to historian Emilia Viotti da Costa, 40 percent of the 10 million enslaved African brought to the New World ended up in Brazil.

Detailed explanation-2: -By 1619, more than a century and a half after the Portuguese first traded slaves on the African coast, European ships had brought a million Africans to colonies and plantations in the Americas and force them to labor as slaves.

Detailed explanation-3: -Courtesy of Firestone Library. 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.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.