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Brazil

Portuguese map of Brazilian coast from the 1500s.

Cabral Discovers Brazil

A fleet led by Pedro Álvares Cabral reached the Brazilian coast on April 22nd, 1500.

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Brazil’s African Legacy

John Geipel on how the enforced diaspora of the slave trade shaped South America’s largest nation.

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