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Brazil has finally started hearing very public demands for reparations for its role in slavery. Brazil received more slaves from Africa than any other place did. But the country has struggled to have meaningful conversations about its past. Until now. One of the biggest examples: prosecutors civil inquiry into the state-owned Bank of Brazil, which is one of Latin America s biggest financial institutions by assets. That s due to its historic ties to the transatlantic slave trade, and to slavery itself. Activists and experts argue that confronting Brazil’s past is a crucial step toward more equality today.
Brazil has finally started hearing very public demands for reparations for its role in slavery. Brazil received more slaves from Africa than any other place did. But the country has struggled to have meaningful conversations about its past. Until now. One of the biggest examples: prosecutors civil inquiry into the state-owned Bank of Brazil, which is one of Latin America s biggest financial institutions by assets. That s due to its historic ties to the transatlantic slave trade, and to slavery itself. Activists and experts argue that confronting Brazil’s past is a crucial step toward more equality today.
Brazil has finally started hearing very public demands for reparations for its role in slavery. Brazil received more slaves from Africa than any other place did. But the country has struggled to have meaningful conversations about its past. Until now. One of the biggest examples: prosecutors civil inquiry into the state-owned Bank of Brazil, which is one of Latin America s biggest financial institutions by assets. That s due to its historic ties to the transatlantic slave trade, and to slavery itself. Activists and experts argue that confronting Brazil’s past is a crucial step toward more equality today.
RIO DE JANEIRO — In the mid-1800s, the most prolific enslaver in Brazil was a man named José Bernardino de Sá. The transatlantic slave trade was banned in Brazil and ....