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The last steps
Edson Soares
出版Lulu.com, 2019-03-14
主題Fiction / General
ISBN03595088479780359508846
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=I7yNDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋An exciting history of SLAVERY AND FREEDOM at the Brazilian Second Empire (1840-1889).The author Edson Soares was based on real facts that occurred in Brazil at the time of the Second Empire, to report the physical and psychological tortures that the black slaves who were condemned to the gallows passed.The book makes a portrait of an aristocratic society, where servile work was its basis of support.SYNOPSIS - On a beautiful morning in May 1843, inside the public jail of a small, provincial Brazilian city of Imperial Brazil, a young black man prepares to die. The soldiers help him to stay clean, handsome, and well-behaved. The day of its execution would be full of surprises and official commitments. Meanwhile, the gallows is already mounted in the main square of the city, waiting for the damned.Maria Concepcion is a candy seller, a freelance slave, who decides to hire an inexperienced lawyer (Pedro Ibarras) to free Joseph Pity from the gallows.