Reparations

Brazil bank’s ties to slavery reopen wounds, reparations debate

In 1853, Viscount Jose Bernardino de Sa, a Brazilian nobleman who made his fortune shipping enslaved Africans to the Americas, became the largest investor in the country’s oldest bank, Banco do Brasil.

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