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A fazenda (Portuguese pronunciation: [fɐˈzẽdɐ, fa-]) is a plantation found throughout Brazil during the colonial period (16th - 18th centuries). They were concentrated primarily in the northeastern region, where sugar was produced in the engenhos, expanding during the 19th century in the southeastern region to coffee production. Nowadays fazenda denotes any kind of farm in Brazilian Portuguese and occasionally in other Portuguese varieties as well.

Fazendas created major export commodities for Brazilian trade, but also led to intensification of slavery in Brazil. Coffee provided a new basis for agricultural expansion in southern Brazil. In the provinces of Rio de Janeiro and then São Paulo, coffee estates, or fazendas, began to spread toward the interior as new lands were opened.^[1] By 1850 coffee made up more than 50% of Brazil's exports, which amounted to more than half of the world's coffee production.^[2]

Along with the expansion of coffee growing came an intensification of slavery as the country's primary form of labor. More than 1.4 million Africans were forced into slavery in Brazil in the last 50 years of the slave trade, and even after the trans-Atlantic slave trade ended, slavery continued in the country until 1888, when it was abolished by the so-called Golden Law.^[3]

Because of the increased profit from the coffee trade, the years after 1850 saw considerable growth and prosperity in Brazil. Railroads, steamships and telegraph lines were introduced in Brazil, all paid for by the money the fazendas supplied from their coffee crop. In growing cities such as Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, a middle class consisting of merchants, lawyers and an urban working class grew, once again, paid for by the money coming from the fazendas.

^ Chambers, William; Robert Chambers (1879-12-27). "Slave-life in Brazil". Chambers's journal of popular literature, science, and art. Vol. 56. London: W. & R. Chambers. pp. 823–824.
^ Baronov, David (2000). The abolition of slavery in Brazil: the "liberation" of Africans through the emancipation of capital. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 183. ISBN 978-0-313-31242-7.
^ The Abolition of slavery and the aftermath of emancipation in Brazil. Rebecca Jarvis Scott (ed.). Duke University Press. 1988-09-01. ISBN 978-0-8223-0888-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)

[chambers1879-1] Chambers, William; Robert Chambers (1879-12-27). "Slave-life in Brazil". Chambers's journal of popular literature, science, and art. Vol. 56. London: W. & R. Chambers. pp. 823–824.

[baronov2000-2] Baronov, David (2000). The abolition of slavery in Brazil: the "liberation" of Africans through the emancipation of capital. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 183. ISBN 978-0-313-31242-7.

[3] The Abolition of slavery and the aftermath of emancipation in Brazil. Rebecca Jarvis Scott (ed.). Duke University Press. 1988-09-01. ISBN 978-0-8223-0888-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)

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