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This 6 page paper offers a brief overview of slavery in these two countries, including when slavery began in each country, why it was practiced and how and when it ended. Brazil, who imported ten times the number of slaves in the U.S. was also the last country to abolish slavery. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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16th and 17th centuries as Europeans colonized the New World.3 Morganthau reported: "The conquistadors brought African bondsmen to the island of Hispaniola as early as 1505."4 It was in
the 1800s that attitudes about slavery began to change dramatically leading to its decline.5 In fact, the U.S. Congress banned slavery in the Northwest Territories in 1787.6 Today, although slavery
is outlawed in most countries, it continues to exist in parts of South America, Asia and Africa.7 The Spaniards established sugar plantations and began mining for gold and other precious
metals in Brazil, Cuba and other Caribbean islands during the 1600s and they needed a great deal of cheap labor.8 They initially enslaved Indians but when most died from brutal
treatment and disease, they began importing West Africans.9 The change was partially due to a Papal Bull issued in 1537 that forbade the enslavement of indigenous Indians but more importantly
to the Portuguese, Africans were stronger and less vulnerable to disease.10 During this same century, France, England, and the Netherlands settled colonies in the West Indies and expanded the slave
trade France, England, and the Netherlands.11 As the demand for sugar grew, new sugar colonies were established and slavery again expanded.12 It is estimated that Europeans shipped about 10 million
black slaves from Africa and transported them to the Western Hemisphere;13 about 2 million died on the trip.14 Of the remaining, 65 percent went to Brazil, Jamaica, Cuba and Haiti
(which was called Saint Domingue at the time).15 Brazil itself took in 38 percent of the slaves.16 By comparison, the United States received about 5 percent of the total number.17
Slavery dates back to the 1600s in the U.S.18 It was practiced primarily on tobacco, cotton and other crop plantations in the South.19 By 1860, there were about 4 million
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