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 received letters of manumission. The event reportedly left the association with a financial deficit, showing the costs and uncertainty of organized freedom campaigns as well as the initiative of the women who ran them.
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What happened at Ave Libertas’s 20 June 1884 benefit?
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Two enslaved women were freed through letters delivered during the event.
Epiphania and Joaquina received letters of manumission during an Ave Libertas benefit.
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The 20 June 1884 event recorded the two women’s emancipation documents.