Describe the impact and long lasting effects of sugar plantations

-Portuguese entrepreneurs were the first to create the sugar plantations in Brazil and imported African slaves to perform the heavy labor. Throughout the western hemisphere, peoples of European, African, and American ancestry interacted to fashion new worlds including fur and other skins.

-In later decades Portuguese planters built sugar plantations on the Brazilian coastline. Immigrants displaced indigenous peoples and established settler colonies under the rule of European peoples.

-Portuguese interest in Brazil rose after profitable sugar plantations were established on the coast.

-Africans and their descendants became the majority of the population in Brazil.

-Sugar plantations are sometimes referred to as engenhos.

-Sugar plantations were established in regions without the administrative machinery to recruit workers so they relied on African slaves to work the plantations.

Affects

-The plantations created high demands for cheap labor and stages and also a desire to explore more land for economic expansion

-More countries saw the opportunities in North and South America for expanding their own territory and took advantage of the fertile soil. Sugar was also a large part in the triangular trade heading to Europe.