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.
Throughout the 1700s and early 1800s, slavery was being weeded out in the British Empire, North America, and France. Brazil, however, still had nearly one and a half million slaves with the number of slave imports only accelerating at 5.7%.4.