Also known as: Brazil, Brasil, The Brazils
Last updated: April 26, 2026
Brazil was the Americas' largest slave society, consuming more enslaved Africans than any other New World colony and serving as a crucial point of comparison for understanding Saint-Domingue's plantation economy and the Haitian Revolution.
Brazil was the largest recipient of enslaved Africans in the entire Atlantic slave trade.
Brazil had the largest and most famous maroon community in the Americas — Palmares.
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