Bahian Recôncavo Plantations
Meyer, Doriane Andrade
Brazil was the recipient of the highest number of enslaved Africans and maintained the longest-lasting system of slavery in the Americas. Over three centuries, approximately four million Africans were brought to Brazil via the Middle Passage. Slavery had a significant impact on most aspects of Brazilian society, but the plantations were particularly emblematic of the spatial systems of exploitation associated with slavery. However, despite bei...