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Politics
âThese connections are overlookedâ: how British companies profited from slavery in Brazil long after abolition
Britons learn about the countryâs involvement âalmost as a self-congratulatory narrativeâ, says historian Joseph Mulhern In 1845 British citizens and companies were already legally prohibited from owning or buying enslaved people overseas, yet that year 385 captives were âtransferredâ to a British mining company in Brazil named St John dâEl Rey. Despite a global campaign waged by the UK against slavery and the transatlantic slave trade, the move was not technically illegal because the enslaved people were not sold but ârentedâ â a practice permitted overseas under the 1843 Slave Trade Act. Continue reading...
The Guardianâ˘3/17/2026
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