Slavery is a kind of social leprosy: it has often been abolished by legislators and restored by education under various aspects. - Luiz Gama
" "Slavery is a kind of social leprosy: it has often been abolished by legislators and restored by education under various aspects.
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About Luiz Gama
Luís Gonzaga Pinto da Gama (Salvador, June 21, 1830 - São Paulo, August 24, 1882) was a Brazilian rábula (a self-taught lawyer), abolitionist, orator, journalist and writer, and the Patron of the Abolition of Slavery in Brazil.
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Getulino
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Luiz Gonzaga Pinto da Gama
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Da Gama, Luiz Gonzaga Pinto, 1830-1882
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Gama, Luiz, 1830-1882
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Pinto da Gama, Luiz Gonzaga, 1830-1882
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Gonzaga Pinto da Gama, Luiz, 1830-1882
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Getulino, 1830-1882
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Luís Gonzaga Pinto da Gama
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In front of them Washington, pensive like Archimedes, with the tip of the sacred sword, soaked in the blood of battles, inscribes the United States on the map of the Nations; and Franklin, the modern Teramenes, snatching a ray from the sun, with lucid stars, engraves in infinity the eternal legend of Liberty.
A Província de São Paulo, Carta a Ferreira de Menezes, December 18, 1880. Source: Leia artigo de Luiz Gama publicado há mais de 140 anos nas páginas do Estadão.
Correio Paulistano, March 12, 1874. Source: Defendeu escravizados: O inestimável legado do jornalista Luiz Gama.
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