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 CHA PIER XVIII-    “ SLAVHRY AND ¤¤¤>¤<>M’¤0N·         .le   Tun first and greatest sugar-growing region of  Pernambuco, is exactly opposite the valley of the  €t j  the mouth of the Amazon is opposite that of the With Africa thus so handy, it is no wonder the ssiptp planters in Brazil availed themselves of and that the slave—trade soon grew into ya   ¢,tp persistent business. Immediately after Portugal?s» nition of the independence of Brazil in l 826, ar was made between Great Britain and Brazil for pression of the slave-trade; however, in those. ti , for many years afterward, the influence of the, r ing class in Brazil was powerful enough to  wishes of any humane magistrate or statesman   r—~, country who may have urged the enforcement iris of treaty, and the slave-trade continued to flourish. ` Christie, a former British minister in Brazil, in his if on Brazilian Questions," published in 1865, says, `, action of the Government: " Left to itself,it it treated for a long time with neglect the English Government.; it did not answer Gbuggd  iII`a it..P?Qi?°St°d that its dignity It *>° M   by ¤ f<>¤‘<=is‘¤ sew <>I=¤¤<>¤‘~‘¤ I>¤