📅 20 Yüni 1884
The 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...
📅 13 Yüli 1884
A 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...
📅 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....
📅 25 Mart 1885
To 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...
📅 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...
