Portuguese transatlantic slave trade to Brazil (1501–1850)

1. Portuguese reach Brazil and claim the territory

   Apr 22, 1500Labels: Pedro lvares, Brazil, Portuguese Crown

   • Britannica
   • Britannica

2. Portuguese sugar plantations expand in Brazil

   Jan 1, 1530Labels: Sugar plantations, Pernambuco, Portuguese settlers

   • Britannica
   • Britannica

3. Atlantic slave shipments to Brazil become regular

   Jan 1, 1550Labels: Atlantic slave, Portuguese merchants, Brazil

   • Slave Voyages
   • Britannica

4. Iberian Union draws Brazil into wider wars

   Dec 1, 1580Labels: Iberian Union, Portugal, Spain

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   • Britannica

5. Quilombo of Palmares grows as a refuge

   Jan 1, 1605Labels: Palmares, Quilombo, Maroon community

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   • Cambridge

6. Dutch seize Pernambuco’s sugar region

   Mar 3, 1630Labels: Dutch Brazil, Pernambuco, Recife

   • Britannica
   • Recife Siege

7. Dutch capture Luanda, disrupting slave supply

   Aug 25, 1641Labels: Luanda, Dutch West, Angola

   • Dutch Angola
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8. Gold boom increases demand for enslaved labor

   Jan 1, 1695Labels: Gold mining, Minas Gerais, Brazilian mining

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   • Britannica

9. Palmares is conquered; Zumbi killed later

   Nov 20, 1695Labels: Palmares, Zumbi, Quilombo fall

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   • Palmares

10. Portugal becomes the largest Atlantic slaving carrier

    Jan 1, 1750Labels: Portuguese shipping, Atlantic slaving, Brazil

    • Slave Voyages
    • UGA Press

11. Britain and Brazil sign treaty to end the trade

    Nov 23, 1826Labels: Brazil, United Kingdom, 1826 treaty

    • Britannica
    • Britannica

12. Brazil’s 1831 law bans the slave trade

    Nov 7, 1831Labels: Lei Feij, Brazilian law, 1831

    • Senado
    • Britannica

13. Eusébio de Queirós Law ends the trade in practice

    Sep 4, 1850Labels: Eus bio, Brazil, 1850

    • Britannica
    • Palmares Fdn