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Luís Gonzaga Pinto da Gama was a Brazilian rábula , abolitionist, orator, journalist and writer, and the Patron of the abolition of slavery in Brazil.Born to a free black mother and a white father, he was nevertheless made a slave at the age of 10, and remained illiterate until the age of 17. He judicially won his own freedom and began to work as a lawyer on behalf of the captives, and by the age of 29 he was already an established author and considered "the greatest abolitionist in Brazil".Although considered one of the exponents of romanticism, works such as Manuel Bandeira's "Apresentação da Poesia Brasileira" do not even mention his name. He had such a unique life that it is difficult to find, among his biographers, any who do not become passionate when portraying him - being himself also charged with passion, emotional and yet captivating.He was a black intellectual in 19th century slave-owning Brazil, the only self-taught and the only one to have gone through the experience of captivity. He spent his life fighting for the abolition of slavery and for the end of the monarchy in Brazil, but died six years before these causes were accomplished. In 2018 his name was inscribed in the Steel Book of national heroes deposited in the Tancredo Neves Pantheon of the Fatherland and Freedom. Wikipedia  

✵ 21. June 1830 – 24. August 1882
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“Under the law, the crime of murder perpetrated by the slave on the person of the master is justifiable”

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Subtitle of the article "Aos escravocratas" written by Raul Pompeia. Newspaper "ÇA IRA", August 19, 1882. Source: Benedito, Mouzar (2011). Luiz Gama - o libertador de escravos e sua mãe libertária, Luíza Mahin https://www.expressaopopular.com.br/loja/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/luiz-gama.pdf 2 ed. São Paulo: Expressão Popular. Page: 59. ISBN 85-7743-004-9.

“Slavery is a kind of social leprosy: it has often been abolished by legislators and restored by education under various aspects.”

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1876. Source: Luiz Gama foi o 1º jornalista brasileiro negro, mas ainda é desconhecido https://jornaldebrasilia.com.br/noticias/brasil/luiz-gama-foi-o-1o-jornalista-brasileiro-negro-mas-ainda-e-desconhecido/.

“A law is a social monument, a page of history, a lesson in ethnography, a reason for state.”

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Gazeta da Tarde, [Carta a Ferreira de Menezes], January 07, 1881. Source: Defendeu escravizados: O inestimável legado do jornalista Luiz Gama https://aventurasnahistoria.uol.com.br/noticias/reportagem/defendeu-escravizados-o-inestimavel-legado-do-jornalista-luiz-gama-.phtml.

“I am an abolitionist, without reservation; I am a citizen; I believe I have done my duty.”

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A Província de São Paulo, “Questão forense”, October 14, 1880. Source: Defendeu escravizados: O inestimável legado do jornalista Luiz Gama https://aventurasnahistoria.uol.com.br/noticias/reportagem/defendeu-escravizados-o-inestimavel-legado-do-jornalista-luiz-gama-.phtml.

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