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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. (15[2])An explorer (15[1])in this country married to Bartira (“bar-CHEE-ruh”) formed (15[1])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 (10[1])plantations. In this country, colonial authorities suppressed the “inverted kicks” of a martial art used by quilombo (10[1])(“kee-LOM-boo”) fighters. For 10 points, the Golden Law manumitted the slaves of what former Portuguese colony? ■END■

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