📅 20 April 1884
Women 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...
📅 8 Sèptèmber 1884
At 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....
📅 20 Yüni 1885
The 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...
