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  2. Atlantic slave trade to Brazil - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Triangular trade - Wikipedia

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    Triangular trade. Triangular trade or triangle trade is trade between three ports or regions. Triangular trade usually evolves when a region has export commodities that are not required in the region from which its major imports come. It has been used to offset trade imbalances between different regions.

  4. Slavery in Brazil - Wikipedia

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    Slavery in Brazil. 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.

  5. Atlantic slave trade - Wikipedia

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    The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people to the Americas. European slave ships regularly used the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage. Europeans established a coastal slave trade in the 15th century and trade to the Americas began in the 16th century ...

  6. Slavery in Latin America - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Slavery in Latin America was an economic and social institution that existed in Latin America before the colonial era until its legal abolition in the newly independent states during the 19th century. [1] However, it continued illegally in some regions into the 20th century. [2] Slavery in Latin America began in the pre-colonial period ...

  7. Middle Passage - Wikipedia

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    t. e. A marker on the Long Wharf in Boston serves as a reminder of the active role of Boston in the slave trade, with details about the Middle Passage [1]. The Middle Passage was the stage of the Atlantic slave trade in which millions of enslaved Africans [2] were transported to the Americas as part of the triangular slave trade.

  8. Slavery in the British and French Caribbean - Wikipedia

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    The French slave trade ran along a triangular route, wherein ships would travel from France to colonized African countries, and then to the Caribbean colonies. [6] The triangular setup was intentional, as France aimed to bring the African laborers to the New World, where their labor was of higher value because of the natural and cheap resources ...

  9. Economic history of Brazil - Wikipedia

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    Brazil belonged to the Kingdom of Portugal as a colony. [2] European commercial expansion of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. [2] Blocked from the lucrative hinterland trade with the Far East, which was dominated by Italian cities, Portugal began in the early fifteenth century to search for other routes to the sources of goods valued in European markets. [2]