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∙ 6y agoPortugal used Brazil as a place to produce massive amounts of sugar on places called plantations and used force labor in this case the enslavement of Africans and originally the Amerindians but most of them died out.
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∙ 9y agoThe Portuguese originally settled Brazil. It turned out to be profitable due to the large amount of sugar that could be produced on plantations.
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