We know his name was Ambrozio, that he was a slave, and that in 1887 he personally signed the documents opening a savings account in his name at a Brazilian public bank: Caixa Econômica Federal. At that time, the debate on the abolition of slavery — a milestone that would come the following year — was very much alive in Brazil because, in the rest of the Americas, the children of the slave trade were already free men and women.Seguir leyendo