In the Amazon slavery perpetrated by the Spanish, Portuguese, English, French and Dutch, leaving marks today, causing dozens of black organizations in each country, to continue fighting for social and racial equity and gender.
The main points of shipping on the African continent were, what today is known as Guinea-Bissau, Angola, Cape Verde, Mozambique, Kenya, Tanzania. But also embarked Africans from Senegal, Nigeria, Dahomey, Benin and other West African countries.
The main African ethnic groups scattered throughout the Amazon were: Angola, Congo, Benguela, Cabinda, Mozambique, Moxicongo, Macua, Mina, Fanti, Ashanti, Mali, Mandingo, Fula, Fulupe, Bijagó, Carabas, Peuls, Barena, Lalu Paban.
In the Brazilian Amazon have worked both in subsistence farming, and for export. Here also reached other black men and women originated from Guyana and Barbados (island colonized by the English) they came on the condition of ‘free’, especially for work related to the construction of railways, ports / shipping and energy companies – sectors dominated by British companies.
Nowadays, in the Amazon, the black population is concentrated in low-income population mainly residing in the suburbs, slums, hills, lowlands, large cities, while in rural areas, are among the landless, the quilombos / cimarrones , Palenque and other organizational forms.