Ouro Preto MG - As Veias Abertas da América Latina
From here came much of the gold that supplied Europe (mainly England) during the 18th century.
For this endeavor, millions of human beings were kidnapped from their homes in Africa and sold as commodities by noble Dutch and English traders to the Portuguese colonists who became their owners. Eduardo Galeano mentions in his book &quot;The Open Veins of Latin America&quot; ​​that the enslaved people taken to the mines did not last more than seven years.
All the gold and diamonds that were shipped in Brazilian ports bound for Europe only served to enrich a few nobles and merchants and today what remains in this place, once rich place, is poverty and the ruin of a dozen churches built with the gold of the nobles and the blood of slaves who were never able to return to their lands and their people.
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