Artist: Amilton Jesus Dos Santos
Date: 2020
Museum: Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil)
Technique: Gouache
Symbol of the Black struggle in the Cricaré Valley and in the hinterland of São Mateus and Conceição da Barra, Espírito Santo, Benedito Meia-Légua was the leader of a quilombo created in the 1870s. He is mentioned in the oral history of rural communities, in the reports of the Ticumbi and marujada dance masters and in the congo dances in the state’s Northern region. He gained fame with legends that described him as invincible. It was said he was a devotee of Saint Benedict, who helped him to fight against the police and in the raids he made on farms until his death in 1885.
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