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sugar mills in Brazil

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sugar mills in Brazil

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Crown authorizes sugar mills to import enslaved Africans

📅 25 Mart 1559

On 25 March 1559, a royal license authorized mill owners in Brazil to import up to 120 enslaved Africans per mill, subject to duties. This policy made the Crown an active regulator and beneficiary...