I was listening to an episode of Behind the Bastards about the slave labor used by Volkswagen in the 1970s and 1980s and this fact came up. Here’s the relevant Wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Brazil
Excerpt:
Out of the 12 million Africans who were forcibly brought to the New World, approximately 5.5 million were brought to Brazil between 1540 and the 1860s.
Also why when they abolished slavery they abolished slavery for the sake of the ideology of slavery. They never cared for the victims or the people enough and that’s why their is still systemic discrimination till this day. Segregation in the USA wasn’t abolished until the 1900s.