Brazil: An end of year reminder about slavery · Global Voices
Paula Góes

Leonardo Sakamoto [pt] has a reminder for this final days of 2007: slavery still happens in Brazil. He points out that: “Its economic nature differs from the slavery of classical and modern eras, from the colony and empire days. But the inhumane treatment of restricting freedom and the process of “thingification” of human beings are similar features to the previous times”.