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Slavery in Brazil by Jean-Baptiste Debret (1834–1839). Two enslaved people enduring brutal punishment in 19th-century Brazil. Passport granted to the slave Manoel by Angelo Pires Ramos, chief of police in the province of Sergipe, on 21 December 1876, authorising him to travel to Bahia and Rio de Janeiro in order to be sold.
The Atlantic slave trade to Brazil occurred during the period of history in which there was a forced migration of Africans to Brazil for the purpose of slavery. [1] It lasted from the mid-sixteenth century until the mid-nineteenth century. During the trade, more than three million Africans were transported across the Atlantic and sold into ...
Brazilian Quilombolas during a meeting in the capital of Brazil, Brasília. A Quilombo in Amapá. A quilombo (Portuguese pronunciation: ⓘ); from the Kimbundu word kilombo, lit. ' war camp ') [1] is a Brazilian hinterland settlement founded by people of African origin, and others sometimes called Carabali.
1888 poster from the Brazilian National Archives collection commemorating the abolition of slavery in Brazil. The history of abolitionism in Brazil goes back to the first attempt to abolish indigenous slavery in Brazil, in 1611, to its definitive abolition by the Marquis of Pombal, in 1755 and 1758, during the reign of King Joseph I, and to the emancipation movements in the colonial period ...
The goal of converting all Indians to Catholic faith and practices was used by the Portuguese crown to justify the colonization of Brazil. [10] The Jesuits, arriving in Brazil in the mid-sixteenth century, were tasked with these conversions and continued to be`the most prevalent and economically powerful denomination in Brazil until they were expelled in the 1700s. [11]
From the 16th to the 19th century, Brazil received around 5 million enslaved Africans, more than any other country. Transatlantic cruise to turn spotlight on Brazil-Angola slavery past Skip to ...
Confederados (Portuguese pronunciation: [kõfedeˈɾadus]) is the Brazilian name for Confederate expatriates, all white Southerners (along with their Black slaves), who fled the Southern United States during Reconstruction, and their Brazilian descendants.
Brazil's government has made addressing slavery a top priority over the past decade in Latin America's largest economy. In 1995, Brazil officially recognized the active use of slave labor in the ...