Benedita, the fighter from Vassouras

force, still directionless, but capable of becoming a weapon.

This woman’s name was Benedita. And this sale, which was to be yet another humiliation, would change his destiny.

A slave market in Vassouras, in 1857
The scene takes place in February 1857, in the central square of Vassouras, in the interior of Rio de Janeiro. Vale do Paraíba then lived to continue reading …