Slavery, according to Elza Soares

To remember the slavery days and celebrate the (official) abolition anniversary, a great but disturbing Elza Soares video clip, where she sings that “the cheapest meat in the market is the black flesh”.

 
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Brazil explained in 100 images (part 1)

[UPDADE] – You have the option of seeing all the 100 images in only one post. Click here.
Today we will begin a tour of 150 years of Brazilian history through photography and other iconography. Ten …

5 million workers under age

One hundred and eleven years after Brazil abolished slavery, the number of workers deprived of their freedom is still huge. They raise cattle, produce charcoal, sugar cane or timber. Some of them, most undocumented Bolivians, …