The newspaper published “O crime da Penha do Rio do Peixe,” reporting the murder of police delegate Joaquim Firmino de Araújo Lima, who had sheltered two people in an emancipation process and joined...
A Redempção returned to the killing of Joaquim Firmino in an article titled “Penha do Rio do Peixe.” Repeated coverage made the murder a public indictment of the slaveholding order and its allies....
