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History
fromwww.theguardian.com
11 hours ago

These connections are overlooked': how British companies profited from slavery in Brazil long after abolition

British citizens and companies exploited legal loopholes to profit from slavery in Brazil for decades after the UK's 1833 Slavery Abolition Act, renting rather than selling enslaved people to circumvent domestic prohibitions.
Arts
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
2 weeks ago

Manumission digitisation project reveals grim story of slavery in Brazil

A collaborative research project digitized over 300,000 manumission papers from 19th-century Bahia archives, creating a database that reveals slavery and emancipation complexities while enabling descendants of enslaved people to reconstruct their ancestral histories.
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