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Period: Oct 1, 1500 to
brazilian slavery
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Oct 1, 1530
Here comes the slaves.
The first ship of laves arrived in brazil.The entered thorugh the port of Salvador. They stayed there where many sugar plantations started opening. -
Oct 2, 1549
strict bureaucracy
The goverment for Brazil started making more strict rules for just about everything but slavery. -
Senegambie
In the 16th century senegambia was the main provider of slaves fro brazil -
GOLD!
In the 1690's gold was found tripiling the demand for native american slaves. -
angola and congo
By the 17th century angola and congo were the main provider of slaves. about 1 million were sent to the diamand and gold fields. -
independence
In 1822 when brazil gained its independence from porugal. they never even thought of stopping slavery. -
coffee
In 1830 mining for diamnods and gold came to a slow stop. There started to become more slaves needed for the coffe plantations than anything. -
britian
Starting in the 1830's britian navy ships started intercepting slave ships coming back from AFrica. This began a huge loss of slaves for Brazil. -
ending of trade slave
In 1850 brazil eneded illegal slave trades do to pressure from Great Britian. -
law of free womb
In 1871 brazi passed a law saying that slaves born into slavery were born free.