For nearly four centuries, black Africans were rounded up and taken to Brazil to work as slaves. Forever separated from their families, their people, their land (in fact only a few managed to return after the abolition of slavery), Africans were gradually adapting to a new language, new customs, new country. They were mingling with the white European settlers and the Indians of the land, forming the Brazilian population and its culture. As in other Latin American countries, the contribution of Africans in the formation of Brazil was essential both in the physical composition of the population and in the formation of what would become their culture, which includes dimensions such as language, cuisine, religion, music, aesthetics, values social and mental structures. Many African peoples were represented in the Brazilian formation, which can be classified into two major linguistic groups: the Sudanese and Bantu
slaves were brought to brazil because when the portuguese setled on the east coasts of brazil, they discoverd sugar. They then made sugar plantations on the land. They began to import african slaves to work in the sugar plantations
Since they needed workforce and the natives were uncooperative, the portuguese used their vast number of colonies in Africa to "import" workers for the brazillian fields, since they were not familiar with the terrain and the climate and were nopt prone to escaping as easily as the natives.
Spain was the first country to import enslaved Africans to the Americas :)
Spain was the first country to import enslaved Africans to the Americas :)
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The Portuguese brought Africans to the colony of Brazil to work as slaves on sugar plantations, as well as in mining and other labor-intensive industries. The transatlantic slave trade was key to the economic success of the colony, providing cheap labor to exploit the vast resources of Brazil.
Spain was the first European country to import African slaves to the Americas. After Christopher Columbus discovered the New World, the Spanish started bringing Africans as slave labor for their plantations and mines. Juan de Cordoba was the first Spaniard to send African slaves to the New World.
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