Tag: slavery
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, ...
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, ...
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 ...
How Cardoso Used Marx to Understand Brazilian Slavery
{mosimage}In Capitalismo e Escravidão no Brasil Meridional (Capitalism and Slavery in Southern Brazil), Cardoso ...
The Hipocrisy of Brazil’s Anti-Racism Fever
At the worst times of repression during the military regime, in the 70s, “tudo ...