Pedro Valentim

Pedro Valentim helped to disseminate ideas and calls for protest. In 1831, Rio de Janeiro’s Police Intendant ordered his arrest on the charge that he was in contact with two Black men who had just disembarked from Haiti. They were all accused of “Haitianism,” which was the term used for the rumors, allegations and the spreading of news involving enslaved, freed and free people in Brazil. There is little information about Pedro Valentim, but it is known that he and other men, like Moiro and Emiliano, became Afro-Atlantic figures for whom “Haiti was here.”