Agriculture is still the #1 industry in North Dakota's economy. The state typically leads the nation in over a dozen crops. Production agriculture is an important part of the North Dakota economy. 1  North Dakota continues to work to diversify its agricultural fabric by targeting the development of value added agriculture. Definition of Value Added Agriculture.
Brazil was the last American nation to abolish slavery, on 13 May, 1888. At the time Rio represented the largest urban concentration of slaves since the end of the Roman empire, more than 40% of the population, almost a complete city in irons.
In fact, it was an institution in decline by this time (since the 1880s the country began to attract European immigrant labor instead). Brazil was the last nation in the Western world to abolish slavery, and by abolition had imported an estimated total of four million slaves from Africa. This was 40% of all slaves shipped to the Americas.