A farmer bought a giant slave for seven cents… No one imagined what he would do with her. Everyone mocked him when he paid only seven cents for a 1

This woman’s name was Benedita. And this sale, which was to be yet another humiliation, would change his destiny.

A slave market in Vassouras, in 1857
The scene takes place in February 1857, in the central square of Vassouras, in the interior of Rio de Janeiro. Vale do Paraíba then lived to the rhythm of coffee, dust, heat and the violence of a system based on slavery.