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Despite not being officially married, they lived together for several years and had 13 children: Francisca de Paula (1755); João Fernandes (1756); Rita (1757); Joaquim (1759); Antonio Caetano (1761); Ana (1762); Helena (1763); Luiza (1764); Antônia (1765); Maria (1766); Quitéria Rita (1767); Mariana (1769); José Agostinho Fernandes (1770).
Jul 8, 2010 · The daughter of an enslaved African woman from the Coast of Mina and a Portuguese man who was a captain of militia... The story of Chica da Silva is by now well known to historians of colonial Brazil.
- Gregory Childs
- 2010
Chica da Silva: A Brazilian Slave of the Eighteen Century is a book by historian Júnia Ferreira Furtado published by Cambridge University Press in 2009. [1] It details the life of Chica da Silva, an eighteenth-century Brazilian woman who gained her freedom.
Freewoman or enslaved, concubine or wife, dangerous seductress or the Queen of Tijuco? These questions surround Chica da Silva, an eighteenth-century enslaved woman from Tijuco (known today as Diamantina) in Minas Gerais, a south-eastern state of Brazil.
Francisca da Silva de Oliveira, known as Chica da Silva, was a slave who lived in Brazil in the eighteenth century at the height of diamond production. Her mythical figure has served to represent the sensuality of the black woman and the capacity for race mixing characteristic of Brazilian society. This slave woman became legendary for her ...
The story of the iconic Chica da Silva reveals that she refused the role of a sexual victim. Black women such as Chica da Silva and Sally Hemings recognized that although they were regarded as inferior, they could utilize their sexual and economic cachet in consensual relationships that were devoid of violence.
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Jan 1, 2011 · The story of Chica da Silva, an enslaved woman from the Brazilian mining regions freed by a Portuguese royal diamond administrator after becoming his mistress, remains a powerful symbol for...
