In this framework, the black movement, which qualifies the date as a “false abolition”went to the Federal Supreme Court to recognize “a policy of death to black bodies” that needs justice and reparation.
The woman was released two months ago from the family home where she started working at the age of 12, in the north of Rio de Janeiro. And he is part of the contingent of 58,000 Brazilians released by the Public Ministry of Labor, after having been subjected to work equivalent to a situation of slave labor.
The Public Ministry of Labor reported that the cases of people subjected to slavery “as if they were family” are more common than is perceived in the country, where 53% of the population declares itself Afro-descendantaccording to data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).
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The released 84-year-old woman is in a asylumwhere you receive help from social workers, and does not perceive that he suffered slavery. “She has no notion that she was enslaved after working her entire life for all members of the family. He did not marry, did not have children and lost contact with relativessaid the social worker, Christiane Lessain charge of the case.
The old woman slept on a small sofa located in a room of the house throughout her life of submission, without receiving a salary or being able to have a profession, education or contact with their relatives. He also had no documents and the family assures that she was an employeewithout being allowed to enjoy any type of right, reported the labor prosecutor Alexander Lyra.
Since taking office in 2019, the president Jair Bolsonaro launched against the work of the Public Ministry of Labor by denouncing a “fine industry” for inspections of slave labor in Brazilian agribusiness, the electoral base of the far-right leader.
In 2021, according to data from the Judiciary, the record (1,937 people) of the last seven years in people rescued from degrading work or similar to slavery.
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The case of this woman from the north of Rio de Janeiro dates back to the 50’swhen his parents worked for the landowner family in the fields. At the age of 12, she was sent to work in the family’s homesespecially as a babysitter.
Since March 15, the Mattos family negotiate with the prosecutor’s office of the labor law the payment of taxes and social security charges for having kept this woman as legally unpaid employee. The perpetrators of the crime could be sentenced to between two and eight years in prison.
The case was disclosed precisely on the anniversary of the date on which Princess Elizabeth signed the Golden Law, eliminating slavery in Brazil in legal termsafter which the Empire of Brazil was overthrown on November 15, 1889 by a military coup that established the republican system and the end of the monarchy.
The Brazilian black movement, on the other hand, does not celebrate this date but adheres to the holiday of November 20, the Black Awareness Day, in tribute to Zumbí dos Palmaresthe slave leader who led a rebellion and founded one of the first “quilombos” (palenques in Spanish America), communities of runaway slaves from their masters.
The anniversary coincided with a comment made on Thursday by Bolsonaro on his social networks, where he compared blacks to animals: “How many arrobas are you weighing”. And it is not the first time it has happened: in the 2018 presidential campaign, before the Jewish community, he assured that blacks didn’t want to work. After that, he was prosecuted by the Attorney General of the Republic.
“The other time I went to a ‘quilombo’ and the lightest Afro-descendant weighed seven arrobas. They don’t do anything, they aren’t even useful to procreate. A fortune is spent on them”he stated at the time.
The Brazilian black movement took advantage of the date of May 13 to make their demands with demonstrations in the main squares of Brazil. And, in the legal framework, he went to the Supreme Court for the acknowledgment of “black genocide” in the post-slavery era, leaders announced Douglas Belchior and Sheila deCarvalho based on statistics on the deaths of black youth in the suburbs by the police.
By Pablo Giuliano, correspondent.-
Source: Ambito
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