. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 1,850 Miles. those of the Hispano-American populations. Owing to the proximity of the Guinea coastlands, slaves were imported by the million into the Brazilian planta- tions, and although the majority call themselves " white," the Brazilian nation, viewed as a whole, must certainly be called mixed. In any case, even the full- blood negroes are regarded as equals by their white fellow-citizens. Yet of all cultured nations Brazil had longest maintained the institution of slaverv ; even the slave trade was legally carried on till 1826, and then aboli
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 1,850 Miles. those of the Hispano-American populations. Owing to the proximity of the Guinea coastlands, slaves were imported by the million into the Brazilian planta- tions, and although the majority call themselves " white," the Brazilian nation, viewed as a whole, must certainly be called mixed. In any case, even the full- blood negroes are regarded as equals by their white fellow-citizens. Yet of all cultured nations Brazil had longest maintained the institution of slaverv ; even the slave trade was legally carried on till 1826, and then abolished
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