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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 kidnapped more Africans for forced labor than any other nation.
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 kidnapped more Africans for forced labor than any other nation. “Today’s Bank of Brazil asks Black people for forgiveness,” André Machado said to the mostly Black audience at the Portela samba school in Rio de Janeiro. Brazil — where more than half the population self-identifies as Black or biracial — has long resisted reckoning with its past.
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Brazil enslaved more people from Africa than any other country; nearly 5 million kidnapped Africans disembarked in Brazil.