A serialised historical novel excerpt by Carlos Alberto Marins da Silva, following enslaved Africans from Angola to Rio's Valongo port and a maroon community called Novo Ndongo. Each issue is a short chapter-style reflection tying the fiction to documented history and Brazilian slavery and freedom laws.
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