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Raids across Brazil free 4,000 slaves

Although slavery was officially abolished in Brazil in 1889, Brazil's modern-day slave trade began to boom again during the 1964 military dictatorship. Father Rezende said the official estimate of just 25,000 slaves in Brazil could be way off the mark: "The real figure could be 250,000."

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