AI Recreates the Faces of Enslaved People in Brazil Thanks to Descriptions of an Abolitionist

In Otrobanda, in the historic heart of Willemstad, the first Caribbean office of the Slavery Past Committe was opened yesterday. The location in the old city centre, a former governor's building, will be a meeting place where knowledge transfer, dialogue and heritage are central. Lucia Beck, director of the committee in the Caribbean, calls the opening an honour and - as a former resident of the old city centre - a personal circle that comes ful…

On the arduous path of the historical reparation of the millions of Africans who were enslaved in Brazil for almost four centuries, there are small gestures full of symbolism. One could be to recover the identity of those who never had the right to exist as human beings. This is what an exhibition that has just opened in the Public Archive of the State of São Paulo, in the city of São Paulo. Using the meticulous descriptions that the lawyer and …