Brazil!

Knowing little about Brazil's history, I checked out a popular new tome, BRAZIL, A BIOGRAPHY by Schwarzc and Starling. I'm making my slow way through the story, much of which is focused on slavery.

The Portuguese had colonies in Africa, which made it easy for them to kidnap black men and ship them to the New World (to replace the dying Amerindians).  The Portuguese didn't ship many women or children. They weren't the strongest laborers. 

In the United States enslaved women were of value for several reasons, one of which was that they gave birth to new, valuable, baby slaves. In Brazil, where a slave's life expectancy (25 years) was ten years less than in South Carolina, it was cheaper to replace a dead slave with a new one from Angola. Brazil imported about four times as many slaves as the United States and turned their part of the New World into a living hell.

Slavery lasted in Brazil from around 1500 to the 1880s.