Tag: slavery

Capoeira the Jogo de Angola

For Brazilian Blacks Life Has Always Been a State of Siege

In his Voyage Pittoresque et Historique au Brésil,  Jean-Baptiste Debret painted an elderly blind ...

Mato Grosso State Becomes Brazil’s Main Focus of Slavery

Mato Grosso, the largest state in the Center-West region and one of Brazil’s major ...

Brazil’s Wild West Has Largest Concentration of Slave Workers

The Brazilian states with the highest incidence of slave labor are Pará, Mato Grosso, ...

Sugarcane cutter in Brazil

Inequality Is As Brazilian As the Weather and the Beaches

On Sunday, February 5, the Brazilian TV program Fantástico presented three shocking reports. One ...

18,000 Slave Workers Rescued in Brazil, But No One Went to Jail

Brother Xavier Plassat, coordinator of Brazil’s Land Pastoral Commission’s Campaign to Combat Slave Labor, ...

Brazilian black

Quotas Are the Brazilian Way to Keep Things as They’ve Always Been

Recently a young black man asked me if I saw a relationship between race ...

In Brazil You Have Degrading Labor and Then, Way Down, Slavery

Most of the victims of slave labor in Brazil are illiterate males, according to ...

Brazil Has 15% of the World’s Children Working in Mines: 146,000

A study by the International Labor Organization (ILO) reveals that one million children and ...

Lula Blames Slavery for Brazil’s ‘Social Abyss’

In his remarks today at the 1st National Conference to Promote Racial Equality, Brazilian ...

Sweden Partipates in Brazilian Seminar on Women Trafficking

The international human traffic network is the third most lucrative in the world, with ...