Esperança Garcia

Not to be confused with DC Comics character Esperanza Garcia.
Esperança Garcia
Statue of Garcia at Central de Artesanato Mestre Dezinho, Teresina
Bornc. 1751
Fazenda Algodões, Colonial Brazil
Signature

Esperança Garcia (born c. 1751) was an enslaved Afro-Brazilian and likely Creole woman in Brazil who is considered to have written the first earliest known slave petition in Brazil. On 6 September 1770, she sent a petition to free herself from slavery to the then-president of the province of São José do Piauí, Captaincy of Maranhão (now the current day state of Piauí), Gonçalo Pereira Botelho de Castro. In the petition, she denounced the abuse and maltreatment of her and her son by the overseer of Fazenda Algodões.

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