''Sinhá Moça'' is a Brazilian telenovela produced and displayed at the time of 18 hours (6:00 PM, or 6 in the afternoon) by

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, April 28 to November 14, 1986, in 168 chapters. Substitute ''De Quina pra Lua'' and be succeeded by '' Direito de Amar''. Written by Benedito Ruy Barbosa, it is freely inspired by the novel of the same name by Maria Dezonne Pacheco Fernandes, with the collaboration of Edmara Barbosa and Edilene Barbosa and direction of Reynaldo Boury and

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Synopsis

The story revolves around Sinhá Moça (

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), the rebellious daughter of Colonel Ferreira, the baron of Araruna (

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), who is a ruthless slaveowner, her submissive mother Cândida (Elaine Cristina), and the young Dr. Rodolfo Garcia Fontes (Marcos Paulo), an active Republican abolitionist, before the difficulties of the campaign for the abolition of the slavery. Pro-slavery Monarchists and anti-slavery Republicans confront themselves in Araruna, a small fictional town in the interior of the

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, in 1886, two years before the promulgation of the

Lei Áurea The (; from Portuguese: Golden Law), adopted on May 13, 1888, was the law that abolished slavery in Brazil. It was signed by Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil (1846–1921), an opponent of slavery, who acted as regent to Emperor Pedro ...

("Golden Law"), that abolished slavery nationwide in Brazil. The two meet on the train, when Sinhá Moça, after finishing her studies in the city of

, returns to Araruna. Like Rodolfo, she has abolitionist ideas and criticizes her father's attitudes, fighting for abolition. Sinhá Moça, along with Rodolfo and other abolitionists, invades slave quarters at night, freeing the black slaves and giving them to abolitionist associations, which guide them towards freedom. On the other side of the story is Dimas (Raymundo de Souza) (who is actually the boy Rafael, ex-freed slave) and his stubborn struggle to destroy the Baron, his true father with the slave of the farm Maria das Dores (

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). Before being sold by the Baron, Rafael was a close friend of Sinhá Moça, with whom he spent his childhood. After being emancipated, he takes the name Dimas and becomes the right hand of the typographer Augusto (Luiz Carlos Arutin), a convicted abolitionist, arousing love in Juliana (

Luciana Braga Luciana Braga Ribeiro Ramos (born 16 December 1962) is a Brazilian actress. Career She made his television debut in 1986, in the soap opera ''Sinhá Moça''. She also appeared in the Rede Manchete in the soap operas ''Helena'', 1987, in which ...

), his granddaughter.

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* 1986 Brazilian television series debuts 1986 Brazilian television series endings 1986 telenovelas TV Globo telenovelas Portuguese-language telenovelas Television shows based on Brazilian novels Television shows set in Brazil Television series set in the 1880s {{Brazil-tv-prog-stub