ABSTRACT
In different stages of capitalism, the accumulation was made through the transformation of production relations creating new forms of labor exploitation. The conquest and colonization of America, the enslavement of the native Americans, and the traffic of African slaves would be its first stage. The chapter introduces two forms of extreme labor exploitation in the history of Brazil: human trafficking and slave labor. The text describes the type of people and the forms of expression of human trafficking and slave labor during the time of the colonization of this country: traffic and enslavement of native people; traffic and enslavement of African people; “second slavery”; and exploitation of European immigrants. The last section, law based, offers a critical propositional view about the two forms reported. Brazil, one of the signatories of the Palermo Protocol, committed with its implantation, giving start to the creation of mechanisms of surveillance and combat human trafficking. In 1995, the Brazilian government created the Interministerial Group for the Eradication of Slave Labor.
