In the Heart of Bahia

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For Americans trying to understand Brazilian history, it may help to think of Brazil’s North as akin to the American South and the Brazilian South as resembling our North. It was in Brazil’s coastal Northeast, more than a century before Jamestown, that the Portuguese established their first permanent settlements. In colonial times a plantation-based monoculture […]

Original source: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/06/06/in-the-heart-of-bahia-crooked-plow-itamar-vieira-junior/

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