t or f "Jesuit settlers established missions throughout Brazil, calling these settlements aldeias (villages). Jesuit missionaries offered education to indigenous communities and wanted to convert indigenous people to Catholicism. Many indigenous people did not live in these settlements willingly. In fact, the Jesuits forced them to work in order to run profitable ranches and plantations called fazendas. In the late sixteenth century, new laws prohibited the enslavement of indigenous people, but legal loopholes and the inability to enforce legislation meant that indigenous slavery remained common."The Church promoted slavery in Brazil.

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