Esperanca Garcia, a literate slave, was moved from a Jesuit cotton farm in Brazil to be a cook, away from her husband and some of her children and wrote a letter to the governor asking to be returned to the cotton farm
Themes
Genres: Non-Fiction
Categories: Biography, Oppression & Resilience
Content: Activism
Settings: Brazil, Latin America and the Caribbean, South America
Ethnicity: Brazilian
Gender: Girl/Woman
Race/Culture: Black/African/African American, Latinx/Hispanic/Latin American
Religion: Christian
Character Prominence: Dominant Main