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    Sinhana: Biography of A Colonial Brazil Slave
    Sinhana: Biography of A Colonial Brazil Slave
    Sinhana: Biography of A Colonial Brazil Slave
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    Sinhana: Biography of A Colonial Brazil Slave

    By Marco Paulo Chaves

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    The biography of Sinhana brings us the life of a black woman, born slave in the first half of the 19th century in Brazil Colony, who died in the whipping post at the age of 25. Her story not only shows us all the suffering experienced by a slave in Brazil, but also the beautiful friendship between two women in completely antagonistic social positions: Sinhá Clarice and her slave Sinhana.

    This is her story, in her own words.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMarco Paulo Chaves
    Release dateJun 24, 2018
    ISBN9780463135136
    Sinhana: Biography of A Colonial Brazil Slave

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      Sinhana - Marco Paulo Chaves

      Sinhana

      Biography of A Colonial Brazil Slave

      (by the spirit of Sinhana)

      By Marco Paulo Chaves

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright © by Marco Paulo Chaves

      First Edition - 2017.

      São Paulo - SP - Brazil

      All rights reserved, including the public presentation, radio and television broadcast, translation in full or of individual excerpts. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form (photo, microfilm, or other method) or processed using electronic systems, copied or distributed without the written permission of the author.

      Translator: Mariana Morais

      ISBN: 9780463135136

      For more information and contact:

      sinhanabook@gmail.com

      Sinhana’s Song

      "I'm from the senzala(1)

      I cut the sugarcane

      I serve Sinhá(2)

      I am Sinhaninha."

      "I protect my daughter

      From the evils of the world

      I am Sinhaninha

      I'm Sinhana."

      "I'm Sinhaninha

      I've never been Sinhá

      But everyone calls me

      Sinhana, Sinhana."

      PREFACE

      Slavery in Brazil lasted more than 300 years. In total, more than 5.5 million black people were brought from Africa to Brazil for slave labor. Of this number, 650 thousand, or more than 10% of them died during the relocation alone. This does not take into consideration the thousands of slaves who died in Brazil from torture, physical punishment and murder.

      No matter how much books, movies and digital content try to portray what slavery represented, this book being no different, they can only provide us with a very limited view of reality. Only those who actually lived as a slave could know what was one of the greatest atrocities in the history of mankind.

      This story was reported to me during the years of 2015 and 2016, in several mediumistic sessions through the Medium Clarice. These sessions were recorded in audio then transcribed to the content of this book. During that period, Clarice’s spiritual guide, whose name was Sinhana when incarnated on Earth, started contact with me. She was born in Brazil, most likely in the first half of the 19th century.

      To Bahia alone, the brazilian state where Sinhana's parents landed, 1.7 million slaves were brought. This significant number of people began to arrive in 1582, cargo of the first slave ship coming from Africa to the state of Bahia: the Santo Antônio. Guinean Cycle was the name given to the first great period of slave trade to the Americas.

      Her country of origin may have been Equatorial Guinean or Mozambique, based on the report that her parents already spoke Portuguese in Africa. These Portuguese-speaking African countries were great suppliers of slaves in the 19th century. In addition to the Benin Gulf Route, the Mozambique Route was heavily utilized in this period by slave ships trying to escape the pressures of England, country that made slave trade illegal in 1807.

      As Sinhana herself tells us, the slaves had no notion of dates, time, or places. They did not know how to read or write, fact that made it difficult to pinpoint the exact location of Sinhana's life in time. However, this does not make her story less interesting or less real. What is a date compared to a black life in the Colonial Brazil slavery period?

      Sinhana got her nickname due to the fact she was the bedroom slave of the Sinhá, or the wife of the plantation owner(3). The black people in the farm called her Sinhá Ana, due to the privileges (very few) she was granted for taking care of the Sinhá.

      The content of this narrative is faithfully reported as it took place. I only tried to arrange, when possible, the conversations in chronological order. In no way does this reordering remove from the book its intrinsic soul: Sinhana's story not only shows us all the suffering experienced by a slave in Brazil, but also the beautiful friendship between two women in completely antagonistic social positions: Sinhá Clarice and her slave Sinhana.

      This is her story, in her own words.

      This book is dedicated to Sinhana, her strength, courage and faith!

      Author's note: Both the author and the medium Clarice believe in a secular country and respect all religions, without exception. We believe in the human spirituality, and

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