SLAVERY IN MADEIRA IN THE XV AND XVII CENTURIES:
THE BALANCE
Alberto Vieira
Today, the slave has lost the ironchains and the weight of tradition
that silenced him.
We, just like him, can also declare ourselves free.
Free from the...
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SLAVERY IN MADEIRA IN THE XV AND XVII CENTURIES:
THE BALANCE
Alberto Vieira
Today, the slave has lost the ironchains and the weight of tradition
that silenced him.
We, just like him, can also declare ourselves free.
Free from the compromise of listening in silence to their murmurs, to
disclose them afterwards to the interested public.
But, not only the
documentation works as their voice.
The paths we treaded and the
landscape we contemplated are also an example for it.
On the one hand,
the mountains silence us, and make us slaves of the environment that
witnessed their birth.
On the other hand, they remind us of the shelter
corners of the ones that never accepted the slavish condition.
This
refusal is immortalised in the toponymy.
The freedom, at large, was
preferred to a life of total submission.
Our awakening for this murmur, in silence, of the slaves, resulted from
the reading of Manuel Lobo Cabrera s various studies on the slavery in
the Ca
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