Assertion: portuguese colony | /r/HasProperty | settled in coastal area
Facets:
value: by a large black slave population
type: OTHER
value: mainly
type: DEGREE
value: by the portuguese
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: In contrast to the neighboring Spanish possessions, which had several viceroyalties with jurisdiction initially over New Spain (Mexico) and Peru, and in the eighteenth century expanded to viceroyalties of Rio de la Plata and New Granada, the Portuguese colony of Brazil was settled mainly in the coastal area by the Portuguese and a large black slave population working sugar plantations and mines.