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Portuguese and Brazilian slave trade to Brazil (1500–1850)

Portuguese and Brazilian slave trade to Brazil (1500–1850)

  1. Treaty of Tordesillas divides Atlantic spheres

    Labels: Treaty of, Portugal, Spain

  2. Cabral reaches Brazil for Portugal

    Labels: Pedro lvares, Portugal, Brazil coast

  3. Hereditary captaincies launched to colonize Brazil

    Labels: Hereditary Captaincies, Portuguese Crown, colonial administration

  4. Governor-General sent; Salvador founded as capital

    Labels: Tom de, Salvador Bahia, Governor-General

  5. Africans forcibly brought to Pernambuco sugar plantations

    Labels: Pernambuco, Sugar plantations, Enslaved Africans

  6. Sugar boom deepens demand for enslaved labor

    Labels: Sugar boom, Pernambuco, Portuguese networks

  7. Quilombo of Palmares grows as resistance center

    Labels: Quilombo of, Maroon community, Pernambuco

  8. Dutch seize Recife, disrupting Portuguese sugar region

    Labels: Recife, Dutch Brazil, Dutch West

  9. Portuguese recapture Recife, ending Dutch Brazil

    Labels: Recife, Portuguese restoration, sugar exports

  10. Zumbi killed after Palmares defeated

    Labels: Zumbi, Palmares, Maroon resistance

  11. Valongo Wharf built to land enslaved Africans

    Labels: Valongo Wharf, Rio de, slave landing

  12. Brazil declares independence; slavery remains entrenched

    Labels: Brazilian Independence, Empire of, plantation slavery

  13. Anglo-Brazilian treaty sets deadline to end trade

    Labels: Anglo-Brazilian Treaty, Great Britain, Brazil

  14. Feijó Law formally bans transatlantic trafficking

    Labels: Feij Law, Brazilian law, slave import

  15. Aberdeen Act authorizes British seizures of Brazilian slavers

    Labels: Aberdeen Act, British Navy, Brazilian slavers

  16. Eusébio de Queirós Law suppresses slave trade to Brazil

    Labels: Eus bio, Brazilian law, slave trade