Portugal's first plantations built wealth off of the bodies of enslaved Africans while fashioning a template for chattel slavery that extracted submission through torture and terror. These first plantations were built... (choose only one button)

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Question focus: the origin of Portugal's early plantations and the system of enslaved labor. Each option describes a location, and we’ll evaluate them one by one.
Option 1: 'in the Canary Islands.' While Portuguese and Spanish imperial activity touched the Canary Islands, the specific early plantation model that became a template for chattel slavery in relation to enslaved Africans, and the wealth built from their bodies, is historically linked to São Tomé. The Canary Islands were earlier Atlantic stops and did not serve as the primary site for Portugal’s first large-scale enslaved- labor plantations that defined early chattel slavery.
Option 2: 'in the Cape Verde Islands.' Cape Verde did become involved in Atlantic slave trade and plantation economies, but the distinctive first plantations tied to this historical narrative and the development of a brutal template of slavery are more closely associated with São Tomé, which was established by the Portuguese as a center of sugar production using enslaved labor.
Option 3: 'off the coast of Brazil.' Brazil became a major site of sugar plantations and slavery, yet the phrase 'first plantations built wealth off of the bodies of enslaved Africans' pointing to the earliest Atlantic plantation experiments is typically traced to the earlier, more foundational plantations on São Tomé, not Brazil proper.
Option 4: 'on São Tomé.' This choice aligns with the widely taught historical sequence: São Tomé and Príncipe emerged as early sugar plantations founded by the Portuguese using enslaved African labor, and these plantations helped establish the brutal model of slavery and labor exploitation that influenced subsequent Atlantic plantation economies.
In summary, the other locations are associated with broader Atlantic slave-trade activity or later expansion, but the specific origin of this early plantation template is most consistently tied to São Tomé. The phrasing of the question centers on this established historical linkage, distinguishing São Tomé from the other listed locales.

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