1. Portugal colonized Brazil, then brought slaves from Africa. 2. She often traveled back into slave territory and brought other slaves to her oasis of freedom. 3. The sugar economy created the plantation system of Hawaii and imported Asian and other laborers just as cotton brought African slaves to the American South. 4. When the Indian population was decimated by harsh treatment, African slaves were brought in. 5. When the Portuguese brought African slaves to Brazil, the Africans were able to disguise their means of self-defense by telling slave masters that it was a dance. 6. Bermuda is thought to be the first place where African slaves were brought in the Western Hemisphere. |