Under the law, the crime of murder perpetrated by the slave on the person of the master is justifiable - Luís Gama

1876. Source: Luiz Gama foi o 1º jornalista brasileiro negro, mas ainda é desconhecido.

A Província de São Paulo, “Questão forense”, October 14, 1880. Source: Defendeu escravizados: O inestimável legado do jornalista Luiz Gama.

...Luiz Gama was keen to demonstrate, through his example, the fallacy of the pseudoscientific beliefs in vogue in a slaveholding society convinced of the intellectual incapacity and moral inferiority of Africans and their descendants, the basis of the racist ideology that still persists among us.”