Brazil had many more African slaves than America. Some 40 percent of all slaves imported to the New World went to Brazil. Lots of sugar cane to chop in Brazil.
In 1888, Brazil outlawed slavery. It was an unworkable system. Brazil did not have a civil war.
The same thing would have happened in America had we not had a civil war. What a disaster for my country was the Civil War. It took us decades to recover, and in some ways, we never have recovered from this war.
My 8th grade history teacher, who was a Mass. Yankee by the way, taught us that the irony of the civil war was that in the very near future technology would have made slavery obsolete. and that the cost of buying and maintaining slaves would be more than hiring people to do the the work.
