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Why did the Portuguese not draw on local populations for the labor needed on Brazilian plantations?
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Why did the Portuguese not draw on local populations for the labor needed on Brazilian plantations?

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The main reason why the Portuguese did not draw on local populations for the labor needed on Brazilian plantations is because smallpox and other diseases had devastated local native populations. 
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