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Slaves’ descendants in Brazil braced for land titles’ fight

Thomson Reuters Foundation As Brazil marks 130 years since the abolition of slavery this year, the descendants of runaway slaves have been celebrating two major victories in their long fight to get legal title to their land. In the northern state of Para, 500 of them in Quilombo Cachoeira Porteira took formal ownership of 220,000 […]