[OC] Sugarcane was first introduced to Brazil in 1532. Half a millennium later, the country produces over 700M tonnes yearly (roughly the same amount as all of Asia, and 7x the amount produced by Africa)inconvenientnews t1_j80th79 wrote
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> Portuguese settlers
Who were the workers doing the farming work on sugarcane plantations?
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blankspaceBS t1_j82fhhe wrote
Yeah. Slavery here was mostly to keep the colonial sugar cane industry going. This isn't news to any brazilian. We learn that in elementary school.
It should have been pointed out somewhere in this thread tho
imgrandojjo t1_j82ihuq wrote
Not just in brazil either, the Caribbean sugar industry more or less copied what Brazil was doing, up to and including the importing of African slaves.
andreotnemem t1_j8au09t wrote
Yes, it's pretty well established History taught in both Portugal and Brazil. It was also the case allover the world. For at least 5 millenia (off the top of my head) and until fairly recently.
I'm sure everyone knows the banner in Giza: "slavery gets shit done".
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