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Images that show slavery in Dutch-occupied Brazil in the 17th century

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Why is it important?

People forget that the Dutch facilitated slavery in sugar plantations in former Portuguese colonies--including Brazil.

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This page is a summary of: Caspar Barlaeus’s Rerum per octennium in Brasilia (1647), November 2024, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004714106_028.
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