Brazil An Inconvenient History

At first glance Brazil appears to be an alluring playground of exciting carnivals sultry samba divine football and a vibrantly diverse people But behind this dazzling facade lies a disturbing story of historys largestever slave population Astonishingly Brazil a Portuguese colony received tentimes more African slaves than the numbers transported to North America This programme looks at those estimated 4 million people with whose blood sweat and tears Brazil was built Without them none of Brazils presentday success and appeal would exist Using contemporary testimonies this film takes a hard look at Brazil s dark history through the eyes of those slaves They lived in squalid conditions on remote plantations or in teeming cities harboring fatal diseases Most Africans survived only seven years in this New World