{"id":45,"date":"2012-07-10T10:20:07","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T15:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/fivecenturiesofchange\/?page_id=45"},"modified":"2021-11-04T11:27:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T15:27:22","slug":"chapter-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/fivecenturiesofchange\/chapters\/chapter-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 1: The Making of Colonial Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_321\" style=\"width: 393px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/fivecenturiesofchange\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2012\/07\/ch1-cover.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-321\" class=\"wp-image-321 \" title=\"Brazilian Natives \" src=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/fivecenturiesofchange\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2012\/07\/ch1-cover.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"383\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/fivecenturiesofchange\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2012\/07\/ch1-cover.png 383w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/fivecenturiesofchange\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2012\/07\/ch1-cover-223x300.png 223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 383px) 100vw, 383px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-321\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library&#8217;s Archive of Early American Images<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In 1500, Pedro Alvares Cabral disembarked in Brazil with 1,200 Portuguese adventurers after badly missing his destination in Southern Africa. Immediately, the colony became a Portuguese claim and quickly earned a unique identity.<\/p>\n<p>From a commercial standpoint, the Portuguese colonizers realized their lucrative find, introducing the industrial production of Brazilwood and establishing feitorias and engehnos for sugar production. Naturally, these recourses necessitated labor to facilitate processes of exportation, and slavery became the lynchpin which held this colonial economic system together. Slavery became even significant with the later discovery of gold in Minas Gerais and also played a role in later political uprisings against the Portuguese.<\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-normal-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/fivecenturiesofchange\/chapters\/chapter-1\/brazilwood\/\"><strong>&nbsp;Brazilwood 1.1 &gt;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1500, Pedro Alvares Cabral disembarked in Brazil with 1,200 Portuguese adventurers after badly missing his destination in Southern Africa. Immediately, the colony became a Portuguese claim and quickly earned a unique identity. From a commercial standpoint, the Portuguese colonizers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/fivecenturiesofchange\/chapters\/chapter-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":43,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"sidebar-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-45","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/fivecenturiesofchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/fivecenturiesofchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/fivecenturiesofchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/fivecenturiesofchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/fivecenturiesofchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/fivecenturiesofchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2996,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/fivecenturiesofchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions\/2996"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/fivecenturiesofchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/fivecenturiesofchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}