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After 350 years, slavery was abolished in Brazil in 1888. Brazil received more enslaved Africans than any other country in the Americas and was the last country in the hemisphere to abolish slavery. No general public or private measures were put in place to assist the formerly enslaved population with the transition to freedom. In fact, policies were implemented that made “freedom” as difficult, in many instances, as slavery. The most notorious was the decision to subsidize and prioritize European immigration from the 1880s to the 1920s. In this way, Brazil was whitened, and Afro-Brazilians were displaced from land and labor. The government often gave Brazilian-born whites, as well as new primarily European immigrants, employment, housing, education, and other financial opportunities and advantages (Klein and Luna 2010; Seyferth 1991; Andrews 1991). This experience perpetuated the unequal racial legacy of slavery. Most blacks were forced to live in poverty and difficult circumstances.

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Heringer, R., Johnson, O.A. (2015). Introduction. In: Johnson, O.A., Heringer, R. (eds) Race, Politics, and Education in Brazil. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137485151_1

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