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Today in Focus

Cotton Capital: The Brazilian connection – episode 4

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.5778 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Revisited: The fourth episode in the Cotton Capital series explores how during the transatlantic slave trade, more enslaved African people were taken to Brazil than any other country. Today, more than half of Brazil’s population identify as Black and there are more Black people in Brazil than any other country except Nigeria. But the country is still grappling with deep structural racism. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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