“Millions of these helpless Africans washed ashore in Brazil...”
No, they didn’t ‘wash’ ashore. They were imported as slaves. There was a bigger slave population in Brazil than in the US. Why do journalists have to screw up basic facts like that? It makes you mistrust the rest of the article.
Yeah, by a factor of 25. Not 25%, 25 times as many (10 million vs 0.4 million for the US).
The first two paragraphs deal with Brazilian slavery. “Washed ashore” is just a euphemism for slaves landing on Brazilian shores in slave ships. The author’s meaning is clear to me.
His use of language is good and it’s more colorful and interesting than “Brazil imported millions of slaves” (which is what I would have written in my pedantic and pedestrian style).
In South America, the lifespan of a slave was ten years, compared to 30 years in the USA.