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Roca Bombaim (Bombay Farm) was one of the farms where 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. Nowadays is becoming a rural hotel.

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Roca Bombaim (Bombay Farm) was one of the farms where 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. Nowadays is becoming a rural hotel.