Revolts
Mariana Xambá, Isabel Mina, Mariana da Costa and Clara Courá were African women who stood out in insurrections that happened in Minas Gerais.
Merrymaking
In Itabira during the 1720s, Mariana da Costa, married to the African Manoel Mina, was denounced because in her “house people of the same nation gathered together in merrymaking.”
Ideas
In 1744, Mariana Xambá and Clara Courá were accused of organizing the conspiracy that disseminated messianic and millenarian ideas in the town of Serro Frio.
Mariana Xambá e Mariana da Costa Clara Courá e Isabel Mina, by Renata Felinto
The women that fought the insurrections in Minas Gerais...
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