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Brazil slave trafficker’s links to top bank spark debate over reparations

On 27 July 1825, a brig called Espadarte (Swordfish) docked in Rio de Janeiro and unloaded its expensive cargo: 422 Africans forcibly shipped across the Atlantic from Angola. It was the first slave shipment known to have been organised by José Bernardino de Sá, then a clerk at a Rio trading house.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/26/brazil-slavery-reparations-slave-trade-banco-do-brasil

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