Tag: slavery
New Labor Rules Will Make Slave Work Still More Common in Brazil
Victims of slave labor in Brazil are less likely to be rescued following a ...
The Cantora: A Historical Novel About Brazil in the Early 1500s
The Cantora (The Native Singer of Colonial Brazil) is both a young adult and ...
World’s Top Slave Importer, Brazil Wants to Preserve a Marketplace that Sold Africans
A wharf in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro used as a marketplace ...
Goodwill Ambassador Brazilian ‘Narcos’ Star Is on a Mission: End Slave Labor
As a boy growing up in Brazil’s impoverished northeastern state of Bahia, Brazilian actor ...
How Crooks Log, Mine, Enslave and Get Rich in the Brazilian Amazon
The Amazon is the sort of wild place where you often go looking for ...
Palmares, Brazil’s Slave Rebellion, Still Going On 400 Years Later
The Quilombo dos Palmares was a nation of fugitive slaves, Indians, and a few ...
For Many Brazilians the Dream of Prosperity in the Amazon Ends Up in Slavery
The dictionary definition of a settler, “one who emigrates to populate and/or exploit a ...
How the Press Joined Conservatives to Keep Illegal Slave Trade Alive in Brazil
The negative influence of the Brazilian press on the illegal slave trade is analyzed ...
Inter-American Court Rules Against Slave Work in Brazil
The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has welcomed a call from the International Labor ...
Child Labor Went Down in Brazil, But 5 Million Underage Workers Are Still Way Too Many
One hundred and eleven years after Brazil abolished slavery, the number of workers deprived ...
