Brazil, a Portuguese colony, received ten-times more African slaves than the numbers transported to North America. This program looks at those estimated 4 million people with whose blood, sweat and tears built Brazil. 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’. Some did survive to form a fusion of African and European culture that is Brazil today. (46 min)

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