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Benedita, the fighter from Vassouras

News admin1 · May 13, 2026 · 0 Comment

Everyone laughed when a farmer paid just seven cents for a woman nearly two meters tall, considered useless by other buyers. It was said that no job suited him, that his strength was misdirected and that it would only cause losses. But Joaquim Lacerda didn’t look at her like the others. Where buyers saw a problem, he seemed to see something else: brute force, still directionless, but capable of becoming a weapon. This woman’s name was Benedita. And this sale, which was to be yet another humiliation, would change his destiny. A slave market in Vassouras, in 1857The scene takes... Continues…