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Brazil was the largest receiver of enslaved people in the Americas and the last country on the continent to abolish slavery, in 1888. It ...
The process of enslavement began on the African continent, and was more complex than many imagine.
The voyage from Africa to Brazil, known as the "Middle Passage," was one of the most terrible experiences in human history. The slave shi...
In cities, enslaved people worked as escravos de ganho (they sold products in the streets, delivering part of the profit to their owner),...
Enslaved people never passively accepted their condition. Resistance was constant, multiform, and heroic.
Abolition was a painfully gradual process. The Eusébio de Queirós Law (1850) prohibited the transatlantic trade — but internal traffickin...
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