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Luísa Mahin
Luísa Mahin (born in the early 19th century) was a formerly enslaved woman of African origin. A controversial character, she is believed to have taken part in the organization of the slave uprisings that shook the province of Bahia in the first decades of the nineteenth century. She was supposedly a major player and strategist in the Malê Revolt, in which she helped inform the others involved through written communications in Arabic. However, there is no historical evidence of her participation in the revolts, which leads some historians to consider her a kind of alter ego of her son, the abolitionist poet Luís Gama. Biography Her origins are uncertain. It is not known whether she was born in the in Africa or in Bahia. A member of the Mahi cultural group, from which her surname comes, Luísa Mahin bought her own freedom in 1812. Her son Luís Gama described her as a short, thin, pretty woman with teeth "as white as snow," proud, generous, long-suffering and vengeful. Legacy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bahia
Bahia () is one of the 26 Federative units of Brazil, states of Brazil, located in the Northeast Region, Brazil, Northeast Region of the country. It is the fourth-largest Brazilian state by population (after São Paulo (state), São Paulo, Minas Gerais, and Rio de Janeiro (state), Rio de Janeiro) and the 5th-largest by area. Bahia's capital is the city of Salvador, Bahia, Salvador (formerly known as "Cidade do São Salvador da Bahia de Todos os Santos", literally "City of the Holy Savior of the Bay of All the Saints"), on a Spit (landform), spit of land separating the Bay of All Saints from the Atlantic. Once a stronghold of supporters of direct rule of Brazil by the Portuguese monarchy, and dominated by Agriculture in Brazil, agricultural, Slavery in Brazil, slaving, and ranching interests, Bahia is now a predominantly Working class, working-class industrial and agricultural state. The state is home to 7% of the Brazilian population and produces 4.2% of the country's GDP. It is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malê Revolt
Male, in biology, is the half of a sex system that produces sperm cells. Male may also refer to: Gender * Male, the gender of men and boys ** Man, a male adult ** Boy, a young male person, usually a child or adolescent ** Masculinity, attributes associated with men and boys Art and entertainment * Male (film), ''Male'' (film), a 2015 Indian film * Male (Foetus album), ''Male'' (Foetus album), a 1992 live album by Foetus * Male (Natalie Imbruglia album), ''Male'' (Natalie Imbruglia album), a 2015 studio album by Natalie Imbruglia * Male (band), a German band * ''Il Male'', an Italian satirical magazine published in Italy between 1978 and 1982 Places * Malé, the capital of the Maldives ** Malé Island, the island the city is on ** Malé Atoll, the atoll the island is in * Malé, Italy, a municipality in the province of Trento, Italy * Małe, Łódź Voivodeship, a village in central Poland * Małe, Pomeranian Voivodeship, a village in northern Poland * Mâle, Orne, a village ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luís Gama
Luís Gonzaga Pinto da Gama (21 June 1830 – 24 August 1882) was a Brazilian lawyer, 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 , 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Costa Da Mina
The (), sometimes shortened to , is a Portuguese term for the loosely defined coastal region in West Africa, Western Africa that sometimes overlapped with parts of the Gold Coast (region), Gold Coast and the Slave Coast of West Africa, Slave Coast. The region was initially settled by the Portuguese due to its gold mines, but came to be an important site during the Atlantic slave trade, Atlantic Slave Trade after the establishment of the Portuguese Gold Coast colony. The name of the region is preserved in place names, languages, and communities in Western Africa and Brazil. Etymology (Portuguese: mine) in refers to gold mining, and was used in the term (Portuguese: the mine) around 1471 to denote the coastal Ghanian town of Shama, Ghana, Shama and the surrounding area where the Portuguese first purchased gold in the region. Some time shortly after the Portuguese erected the Elmina Castle, castle away in the Ghanian village of Edina in 1482, the term came to refer primaril ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
