1 Jan 1518 Jahr - Successful Cultivation of Sugar in Brazil

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After the Portuguese successfully established sugar cane plantations in northern Brazil, Portuguese merchants ramped up their trade of enslaved Africans to the New World colony to meet growing labor demands.

While the native Tupi were the first to be exploited for slave labor on the plantations, decimation of their already destabilized communities by a series of epidemics raised demand for a supplementary workforce, soon accommodated by the importation of enslaved Africans.
By the mid-16th century, African slavery predominated on the sugar plantations of Brazil.
Labor demand rose so high, that Portuguese merchants began to set up a regular slave trade to the colony. The massive expansion of the sugar trade made Brazil the largest single recipient of enslaved Africans by the time slavery was abolished, accounting for around 41% of the total ~12,5 million transported across the Atlantic.

Aside: The plantation system first emerged with the large-scale cultivation of sugar cane on the Portuguese and Spanish island colonies off the African west coast and was later exported to the Americas.


(Image: 16th Century Sugar Cane Mill (Portuguese: "Engenho")

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