I was listening to an episode of Behind the Bastards about the slave labor used by Volkswagen in the 1970s and 1980s and this fact came up. Here’s the relevant Wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Brazil
Excerpt:
Out of the 12 million Africans who were forcibly brought to the New World, approximately 5.5 million were brought to Brazil between 1540 and the 1860s.
I want to find a book or documentary here soon.
Las venas abiertas de America Latina is a very good book about just this.
it’s somewhat outdated and doesn’t go too deep into neoliberalism, which is the new form for imperialism, but it’s a good book nonetheless.