Slavery in Brazil

By Alison Sutton

Subjects: Human rights, Abuse of, Unskilled labor, Slavery

Description: "Based on field research for Anti-Slavery International (interviews with workers, their families, the police, government officials, and social activists), author examines relationships between environmental destruction, migrant labor, and human rights abuses. Documents accounts of debt bondage in forest clearing, charcoal burning, rubber tapping, and mining in Amazonia. Foreword by José de Souza Martins"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.