Keila Grinberg

I think this is a very important project in the sense that we have been able to connect the histories, the stories that people tell us in different places and find the similarities in the experiences of individuals in so many different Atlantic regions. That, to me, is really important. I also like the idea that we can travel to places and just bring those experiences and also objects, that different groups can attribute different meanings to them. So I like very much this idea that it is an Atlantic project, you know, with all the challenges, right, that have been happening. But the fact that there is a shared experience created so many years ago, like centuries ago, that this still exists, in one sense, it’s important, and on the other hand, it shows that those societies, they have in common a racist structure that we still need to be aware of and fight against.” […] this is a country where the majority of the population is can be considered black. And this is also a very racist society. So all of those things at the same time, I think, put Brazil in the center of the discussion of about slavery and also about the consequences of slavery in the Atlantic world long ago.