USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Years before the North American slave trade got under way, more enslaved people had been brought to Brazil than would ever reach British North America. The Brazilian slave trade would continue for another nearly two hundred years.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The last mass inflow of slaves took place in the nineteenth century and was mainly due to the huge expansion of coffee production in Brazil’s south-east. The demand for labour on coffee plantations was so large as to also lead to the relocation of extensive numbers of slaves from the rest of the country.

Detailed explanation-4: -The leading São Paulo coffee-planters-turned-railroad-builders were active in importing European laborers to take the place of the slave. The increasing demand for labor in an expanding coffee economy and the rise of urban groups dissatisfied with slavery as a system made abolition a necessity.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.