North Americans tend to know little of the history of mocambos (also known by the later term quilombos), the autonomous villages established by Africans who rebelled against slavery and held their ground for a century against attempts at military re-conquest. Only Haiti exceeded Brazil in the violent success of its revolt against slavery. What Brazil had far more than North America was organized self-liberation and organized rebellion by slaves themselves. Brazil's abolition movement was late-developing in comparison with Europe and the United States, generating political pressure only a relative few years before slavery's abolition in 1888. Today over just over half of Brazil's population is either black or of African descent.
Ten times as many enslaved Africans were trafficked to Brazil as to the United States.
African slavery provided the foundation for modern Brazil, even more than in the United States.
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