Biography:
On April 9th 1740, a
slave-ship called Madalena arrived in Rio de
Janeiro coming from Africa with a shipment of
112 Bantu Negros from Congo in order to be sold
as slaves in Brazil. Among them, there was a
woman named Delminda, Anastácia's mother. As an
undefended person, Delminda was raped and got
pregnant of a white man and thus her daughter
Anastácia was born with blue eyes. Before
Anastácia's birth, Delminda would have lived for
a certain period in the state of Bahia where she
helped a lot of slaves who were fugitive from
slavery.
Anastácia was born in a
city called Pompeu on May 12th in a region
called centre-west of Minas Gerais. Described as
one of the most important female figures in
black history, Slave Anastácia is reverenced as
a saint and as a heroine in several regions from
Brazil for being a very beautiful woman; she was
also sieged, put to the torture and raped by the
son of a land-steward. Anastácia kept to herself
with her always haughtiness and dignity,
refusing herself to be touched by the men. Thus,
she causing a huge angry of these men who made
the decision on punishing her even more,
submitting her to the usage of an iron mask that
was only taken out during her meals.
Anastácia's punishment lasted for several years.
Very sick, Anastácia was taken to Rio de Janeiro
where she passed away and her body was buried at
Rosário's Church.
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