Preta Fernanda
Andrêsa do Nascimento (1859 27 August 1927), known as Preta Fernanda, was a courtesan and celebrated society figure in ''fin de siècle'' Lisbon. She was also known as Fernanda do Vale (her pen name). She was, perhaps, the best known black citizen of the city in that period. Fernanda was born to poor parents in a small village near Ribeira da Barca on the island of Santiago, Cape Verde, Santiago in Cape Verde, probably in 1859. Cape Verde, a volcanic archipelago off the west coast of Africa, was a Portuguese discoveries, Portuguese colony and a nexus for the Atlantic slave trade. Although slavery was abolished in Portugal nearly a century earlier, it was only selectively abolished in Cape Verde in 1857 with complete abolition in 1878. It is possible, therefore, that one or both of Fernanda's parents were enslaved when she was born or had been enslaved. When she was about 19, she sailed away from the small Atlantic island in the company of a ship's captain, Jerónimo Martins, wh ...
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Ribeira Da Barca
Ribeira da Barca is a townCabo Verde, Statistical Yearbook 2015
Instituto Nacional de Estatística, p. 32-33 in the municipality of Santa Catarina, on the island of , . In 2010 its population was 2,317. It is situated on the west coast, at ...
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