Sao Tome

Worker from Roca Bombaim (Bombay Farm) poses in front of the buildings where used to live the slaves brought to work in this farm. Until the beggining of 20th century a different kind of slavery was put in practise by farm owners that, dispite the end of slavery, took advantage of the fact that free slaves didn't had the money to pay their trip back to Angola or Cape Verde.

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Worker from Roca Bombaim (Bombay Farm) poses in front of the buildings where used to live the slaves brought to work in this farm. Until the beggining of 20th century a different kind of slavery was put in practise by farm owners that, dispite the end of slavery, took advantage of the fact that free slaves didn't had the money to pay their trip back to Angola or Cape Verde.