Brazil slaves freed.(Currents)(Brief Article) New Internationalist | November 1, 2003 | COPYRIGHT 2003 New Internationalist Magazine. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Brazilian authorities announced in September that they had freed about 800 slave workers at a coffee farm in Bahia state, the largest discovery since a clampdown on the practice began in the 1990s. Some 200 workers were also found at another farm with appalling conditions, including no proper housing and inadequate food and sanitary conditions. The practice usually involves landowners hiring poor workers in a different region of the country and then transporting them thousands of miles to ...

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