Slavery
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...victims of their raids. Islam, like Christianity, accepted...Portuguese all engaged in the African slave trade. Although Africans were, as early as 1440...introduction of the first Africans the Paulistas (inhabitants...Brazilian hinterlands. But African slavery gradually became dominant. The first Africans arrived in the British settlements...