Brazil's Dance with the Devil: The World Cup, The Olympics, and the Fight for Democracy | 
A bit of history on the Brazilian slave trade. Average life expectancy was only eighteen. Unbelievable, even with the overall lower life expectancy back then.
AmyS "In the United States, where the primary slave crop was King Cotton, there was a financial incentive to keep slaves alive: they were the most valuable 'equipment' in the production process... In Brazil, however, the primary 'crops' were diamonds and gold. Sustaining the lives of slaves was secondary to getting as many of the precious stones and minerals out of the ground as humanly possible... 8y
AmyS "If slaves died in the mines, they were dumped and new slaves brought in. That is why the life expectancy of slaves in Brazil was so cruelly brief by comparison to the United States." 8y
Laalaleighh I've spent the past few minutes trying to form a comment for this but I just can't. It's just monstrous. 8y
BookishMarginalia 😳 I also know that Brazil was the last to abolish slavery, in the late 1880s, if I remember correctly... 8y
TheNextBook I'll just never understand how easily greed can make people completely disregard human life. 8y
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