Talk: Sabina da Cruz: Life and Strategies of a Freed African in Slave-Holding Bahia
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The Latin American Library Seminar Room, 4th floor Howard-Tilton Memorial Library
Work-in-progress talk by Luciana Brito, 2024-25 Richard E. Greenleaf Fellow at the Latin American Library. The talk will focus on the story of Sabina da Cruz, a freed African woman who denounced the Malês Revolt, an insurrection by Muslim Africans, which occurred in Bahia in January 1835.
