Miguel Barnet’s Biography of a Runaway Slave: Testimonial Literature as History Few documentary sources exist from the Caribbean islands and the Latin American mainland written by Africans or their descendants that describe their life under enslavement. In Brazil‚ two mulatto abolitionists wrote sketchy descriptions of their personal experiences‚ and one autobiography of a black man was published before emancipation. In contrast‚ several thousand slave narratives and eight full-length autobiographies
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2 Brazil: From Colony to Democracy Part I: Discovery and Development C overing 3‚286‚488 square miles—a landmass nearly as large as the United States—Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world. In 2000‚ Brazil celebrated its five-hundredth birthday. The arrival of the Portuguese in Brazil on April 22‚ 1500 began a new chapter—both tragic and vibrant—of the country’s history. By 1532‚ the Portuguese had established their first permanent settlement‚ and by 1550‚ the Portuguese
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critical currents Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation Occasional Paper Series Carbon Trading How it works and why it fails no.7 November 2009 critical currents no.7 November 2009 Carbon Trading How it works and why it fails Tamra Gilbertson and Oscar Reyes Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation Uppsala 2009 The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation pays tribute to the memory of the second Secretary General of the UN by searching for and examining workable alternatives for a socially and economically
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