Tourists Visit Plantation in Brazil and are Served by Black “Slaves”

Slavery as a tourist attraction reveals how Brazil naturalizes its prejudices. www.DiasporaEngager.com/extPage/BrazilianDiasporaPlatform BUCOLIC SCENERY, VERDANT fields, pleasant weather. It would be the perfect setting for sipping on a coffee and relaxing on a farm in the Paraíba valley of Rio de Janeiro state in southern Brazil, if there had not been so much blood spilled here. The region, enriched by the exploitation of slave labor on coffee plantations, was also known for the particular brutality with which slaves were treated. Those days have passed but the region’s economy has gained a second wind: it now appears on the state’s cultural map*, advertising a form of tourism that glorifies its past while naturalizing racism and slavery http://africandiasporaleaders.com/dr-edna-roland-african-diaspora-brazil-south-america/
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