South American cone with substantial black populations

Is there any way that Argentina, & Chile could've, similar to Brazil & central American countries, have developed large black populations ?
 
Is there any way that Argentina, & Chile could've, similar to Brazil & central American countries, have developed large black populations ?

A larger black population is possible, but in the same proportion as Brazil is unlikely. African slaves were brought mainly to places where they could be used as work force for crop plantations, as sugar, tobbacco, cotton, or in gold mines. Argentina and Chile didn't have enviromental conditions to allow large plantations of such crops. At least not in a competitive way against other tropical colonies, that had more conditions to afford the expensive imported Africans.
 

Skokie

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There still are some descendants of black slaves in the Argentina/Uruguay area; they've just been utterly swamped by the influx of Southern and Eastern European immigrants (they used to comprise as much as 50% of the population).

Buenos Aires is roughly the latitude of South Carolina, and points north in the interior have a subtropical/tropical climate.
 
Here's an idea:

In 1813, the Nataional Assambly in Argentina dictated the Freedom of wombs act which established that any kid born of slave parents after January 31st 1813 would be free. Slavery wasn't abolished until 1853, although back then ther were very few slaves. It was then established that any slave entering our territory would be free. What if slavery was formally abolished earlier, and there was an exodus of Portuguese/Bbrazilian slaves to Argentina? Could there have been a Brazilian underground railroad? This requires a more "black friendly" Argentina, of course, and wouldn't probably give Argentina the percentage of blacks Brazil has. But, has any of this any chance of occuring? I'm intrigued about the Brazilian part...
 
Here's an idea:

In 1813, the Nataional Assambly in Argentina dictated the Freedom of wombs act which established that any kid born of slave parents after January 31st 1813 would be free. Slavery wasn't abolished until 1853, although back then ther were very few slaves. It was then established that any slave entering our territory would be free. What if slavery was formally abolished earlier, and there was an exodus of Portuguese/Bbrazilian slaves to Argentina? Could there have been a Brazilian underground railroad? This requires a more "black friendly" Argentina, of course, and wouldn't probably give Argentina the percentage of blacks Brazil has. But, has any of this any chance of occuring? I'm intrigued about the Brazilian part...

A mass immigration of slaves isn't very likely since the regions near to Argentina never had a big slave population, and the ones that had were too distant from the border to take advantage from this. In Rio Grande do Sul slavery was much more an urban phenomena than rural. As the "peon" should also be a soldier of his landlord he should have arms, and no landowner wanted to have armed slaves nearby.
 
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Tom Kalbfus

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A mass immigration of slaves isn't very likely since the regions near to Argentina never had a big slave population, and the ones that had were too distant from the border to take advantage from this. In Rio Grande do Sul slavery was much more an urban phenomena than rural. As the "peon" should also be a soldier of his landlord he should have arms, and no landowner wanted to have armed slaves nearby.
Also Brazil has a huge interior in the Amazon basin, they can migrate westward and start their own farms, displacing Indians living in the rainforest, why would they want to migrate across international borders into the cold?
 
Also Brazil has a huge interior in the Amazon basin, they can migrate westward and start their own farms, displacing Indians living in the rainforest, why would they want to migrate across international borders into the cold?

In some cases the Amazon would be even more difficult to reach than Argentina. And before they could even reach it they would find much more suitable places to live nearer to them. The majority of the slaves didn't need to flee to distant places. There were communities of runaway slaves living in communities even within the cities (Rio had many of them). They just needed to go to some place where the whites wouldn't bother seeking them.
 

Valdemar II

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The climate of the cone make largescale (Black) slavery unlikely, while it perfect climate for European serttlement.

But if we imagine that Brazil conquered the cone, or maybe a deal between Portugal and Spain which gave it to Portugal. You could see something like in USA where millions of Blacks migrated from poorer areas of Brazil to the industrial cities of the south.
 
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