Historical Organization
Sociedade Ave Libertas
Sociedade Ave Libertas
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Organization Timeline
Women in Recife found the abolitionist society Ave Libertas
📅 20 April 1884Women met at the Nova Emancipadora’s headquarters and founded Ave Libertas, a women-led society that sought freedom for enslaved people in Recife. They elected interim officers and a committee to...
Ave Libertas stages a benefit and secures freedom for Epiphania and Joaquina
📅 20 June 1884The society’s first dramatic benefit at Recife’s Teatro Santo Antônio used music, theater, poetry, and public sociability to raise support for emancipation. During the interval, Epiphania and Joaquina...
A second Ave Libertas benefit frees three women
đź“… 13 July 1884A second theatrical benefit drew a full audience. Using the proceeds, the Ave Libertas society secured letters of freedom for three enslaved women whose names were not preserved in the newspaper...
Ave Libertas celebrates its new headquarters and delivers twenty freedom letters
📅 8 September 1884At a public festival in Recife’s Teatro Santa Isabel, the society installed a new board, heard speeches and music, and delivered twenty letters of manumission. Leonor Porto presented the documents....
Ave Libertas leads a public anniversary celebration and freedom campaign
📅 25 March 1885To mark one year since Ceará abolished slavery, Ave Libertas organized a public celebration in Recife with a civic procession, music, religious ceremony, and speeches. At the theater, several...
Joaquim Nabuco brings two freedom letters to Ave Libertas
đź“… 20 June 1885The Jornal do Recife reported a visit by Joaquim Nabuco to the Ave Libertas board. He brought two letters of manumission, for enslaved women named Isabel and Maria. The episode shows a relationship...