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Brazil: Castro Alves, the “Poet of the Slaves”, was born 175 years ago

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The verses from O Navio Negreiro (The Black Ship), by the poet Antônio Frederico de Castro Alves (1847-1871) from Bahia, became eternal in Brazilian literature and a historical symbol of abolitionism. The freedom of the enslaved people in Brazil would . . .

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