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Sugar and Slavery in Portuguese Brazil
By:Kasey MoffittKrista Ezzelle
Christina Church
Facts to Know about The Engenho
• It is also known as a sugar mill.
• Related to the English word engine.
• It always combined agricultural and industrial enterprises.
• Among the most complex enterprise in America.
• The owners of sugar mills were only the privileged class.
• The operated on very small profit margins.
• Business was always high.
• It produced things like molasses and refined sugar.
The Engenho
The Search for Labor
• The peoples of Brazil were not sedentary cultivators.
• During the 1560’s smallpox and measles ravaged the whole Brazilian coast, making it difficult for Portuguese to find potential laborers.
Slavery
• The Portuguese Plantation managers imported slaves as early as the 1530’s.
• They had working conditions, mistreatment, tropical heat, poor nutrition and inadequate housing.
• It produced high rates if disease and mortality.
• Typically lost 5 to 10 percent of their slaves annually.
• The number of deaths in the slave population usually exceeded the number of births.
Slaves