Brazil history part IV Sugar cane and pernambuco

Brazil history part IV Pernambuco occupation

Brazil and the sugar cane: For this history he sees himself how long and work owes necessarily to have consumed a work of these. And with effect, not we have been saving ourselves to fatigues to present publication production the more possible exacta, already regarding the facts itself.

The moist and fertile seaboard of what is now the State of Pernambuco was very suitable for growing sugar and was also conveniently located as a port of call for sailing ships travelling from Portugal to West Africa and the Orient. The sugar plant and the technique of its cultivation had reached Brazil from Madeira. A trade in slaves to work on the sugar plantations was soon developed. During this period large numbers of slaves, mostly from West Africa, were sent to Brazil. The sugar was exported to markets in Europe where rising demand was beginning to outrun supplies from traditional sources.