African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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951 p., Story of an elderly African, blind and dying, traveling from Africa to Brazil in search of the lost son for decades. Along the journey, she will tell her life, marked by killings, rape, violence and slavery. Set in an important historical context in the formation of the Brazilian people and narrated in a way in which the historical facts are immersed in daily life and in the lives of the characters.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Programa de Pós-Graduaç̜ão em História da UFRJ, 2005., 401 p., History of freed slaves in the region of Porto Feliz (SP), between the end of the 18th and mid-19th century when brown, black freedmen and their descendants had to created conditions for societal integration.
