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The first ship of laves arrived in brazil.The entered thorugh the port of Salvador. They stayed there where many sugar plantations started opening.
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The goverment for Brazil started making more strict rules for just about everything but slavery.
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In the 16th century senegambia was the main provider of slaves fro brazil
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In the 1690's gold was found tripiling the demand for native american slaves.
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By the 17th century angola and congo were the main provider of slaves. about 1 million were sent to the diamand and gold fields.
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In 1822 when brazil gained its independence from porugal. they never even thought of stopping slavery.
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In 1830 mining for diamnods and gold came to a slow stop. There started to become more slaves needed for the coffe plantations than anything.
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Starting in the 1830's britian navy ships started intercepting slave ships coming back from AFrica. This began a huge loss of slaves for Brazil.
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In 1850 brazil eneded illegal slave trades do to pressure from Great Britian.
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In 1871 brazi passed a law saying that slaves born into slavery were born free.