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The 1820s Coffee Boom and Brazil's Slave Trade Finale
When the world's coffee addiction took off in the 1820s, Brazil's Paraíba Valley became the epicenter of a brutal economic boom — one that demanded more enslaved Africans than ever before, even as Britain's Royal Navy hunted slave ships across the Atlantic. This episode dives into the human cost of that caffeine rush: the planters who defied treaties, the enslaved workers who toiled and died on coffee fazendas, and the resistance that simmered beneath the surface. We explore the Feijó Law of 1831 — a Brazilian law that banned the slave trade but was never enforced — and the…
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