The discovery of 158 accounts in the state-owned bank Caixa Econômica has triggered an investigation to clarify where the ...

“Departure for the coffee harvest by ox cart, Vale do Paraíba, Brazil, c. 1885” (all images courtesy of Instituto Moreira Salles) Enlargement and detail of “Departure for the coffee harvest by ox cart ...

Enslaved people in 19th-century Brazil opened accounts at Caixa Econômica Federal, the country’s state-owned bank, to save money to buy their own freedom or that of family members. However, they could ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The executive manager for institutional relations at a Brazilian state bank took the microphone before roughly 150 people at a forum on slavery's legacy in his country, which ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Victims of slave labor in Brazil are less likely to be rescued following a government decree that changes the country's definition of slavery and weakens ...

The UN Special Rapporteur on modern slavery released a statement on Friday protesting that forms of modern slavery continue to exist in Brazil, including the exploitation of children and domestic ...

"Black Milk is the first in-depth analysis of the visual archives that effloresced around slavery in Brazil and North America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In its latter stages the book ...

The history of black slavery in Brazil has largely been told from the perspective of the colonizers, not the enslaved. Few firsthand accounts exist, and even in art, slaves often appear as exotic ...

I bought Francisco Lima his first taste of freedom in decades. A cheeseburger. It was 2004, and Brazil was starting to confront one of its most distressing problems: slavery. I was in northern Pará ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — The executive manager for institutional relations at a Brazilian state bank took the microphone before roughly 150 people at a forum on slavery’s legacy in his country, which ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nearly 5 million kidnapped Africans disembarked in Brazil, more than 12 times the number taken to mainland North America. The ...