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readers and abolitionists

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📍 Brazil

readers and abolitionists

Gender: Male

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Gazeta da Tarde begins a Black-led abolitionist press campaign

📅 10 July 1880

Ferreira de Meneses launched Gazeta da Tarde in Rio de Janeiro. The newspaper became a major forum against slavery and racial hierarchy; José do Patrocínio later directed it and used its pages to...

José do Patrocínio launches the newspaper Cidade do Rio

📅 28 September 1887

José do Patrocínio launched Cidade do Rio as a daily newspaper and a platform for abolitionist arguments. He chose 28 September, the anniversary of the Free Womb Law, as its first publication date....