Esperança Garcia
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esperan-a-garcia-172-1361187
title:
Esperança Garcia
text:
Esperança Garcia was an enslaved Afro-Brazilian and likely Creole woman in Brazil who is who is considered to have written the first earliest known slave petition in Brazil. On 6 September 1770, she sent a petition to free herself from slavery to the then-president of the province of São José do Piauí, Captaincy of Maranhão, Gonçalo Pereira Botelho de Castro. In the petition, she denounced the abuse and maltreatment of her and her son by the overseer of Fazenda Algodões.
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Brazilian lawyer
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperan%C3%A7a_Garcia
date created:
2023-08-09T07:50:31Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T19:26:29Z
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