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Anthony Knivet’s memoir describes his rise as a servant-turned-slave trader in this modern-day country after he narrowly avoided the skull-crushing massacre of the Cavendish Expedition’s abandoned sailors. Jean-Baptiste Debret’s paintings portrayed the daily lives of slaves in this country. Various rebellious slaves of “Nagô” (“nuh-GO”) ancestry in this country were deported to the Bight of Benin after a failed slave revolt during Ramadan. An explorer in this country married to Bartira (“bar-CHEE-ruh”) formed a harem that made him the forefather of many (*) bandeirantes (“bun-day-RUN-chees”), whose slave raids supplied labor to the engenho (“en-JANE-yoo”) sugar plantations. (0[1]-5[1])In this country, colonial authorities suppressed the “inverted kicks” of a martial art used by quilombo (10[1])(“kee-LOM-boo”) fighters. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1])the Golden (10[1])Law (10[1])manumitted the slaves of what former (10[1])Portuguese colony? (10[1])■END■

ANSWER: Brazil [or Federative Republic of Brazil or República Federativa do Brasil]
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