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The Black Guard of the Redemptress (Portuguese: Guarda Negra da Redentora) was a paramilitary [1] secret society in Rio de Janeiro [2] composed of Brazilian former African slaves freed on May 13, 1888, by the signature of the Golden Law by Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil. The guard included capoeiristas who belonged to the street gangs of ...
On May 13, 1888, Princess Isabel, heir to the Brazilian throne, signed a "Golden Law" that freed 700,000 people from slavery in Brazil. [1] Brazil had received almost half of enslaved Africans brought to the Americas by European colonizers.
An outdoor Thanksgiving mass, in Rio de Janeiro, brings together Princess Isabel and about twenty thousand people, and celebrates the abolition, on May 17, 1888. On May 13, 1888, the imperial government yielded to pressure and Princess Isabel de Bragança signed the Golden Law, which extinguished slavery in Brazil.
Jezebel is introduced into the biblical narrative as a Phoenician princess, the daughter of Ithobaal I, king of Tyre (1 Kings 16:31 says she was "Sidonian", which is a biblical term for Phoenicians in general). [12] According to genealogies given in Josephus and other classical sources, she was the great-aunt of Dido, Queen of Carthage. [12]
Matthew 7:12. "The Sermon on the Mount" - The central panel on the pulpit of St Stephen's Church, Bournemouth, as carved by Nathaniel Hitch. Matthew 7:12 is the twelfth verse of the seventh chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament and is part of the Sermon on the Mount. This well known verse presents what has become known as the ...
Isabel Moctezuma. Doña Isabel Moctezuma (born Tecuichpoch Ichcaxochitzin; 1509/1510 – 1550/1551) was a daughter of the Aztec ruler Moctezuma II. She was the consort of Atlixcatzin, a tlacateccatl, [ 1 ] and of the Aztec emperors Cuitlahuac, and Cuauhtemoc and as such the last Aztec empress. After the Spanish conquest, Doña Isabel was ...
Torquemada was born on 14 October 1420 either in Valladolid, in the Kingdom of Castile, [7] or in the nearby village of Torquemada. [8] [9] The 15th century chronicler Hernando del Pulgar, a contemporary to de Torquemada and himself a converso, recorded that Tomás de Torquemada's uncle, Juan de Torquemada, a celebrated theologian and cardinal, [10] was of converso descent. [11]
Numbers 31 is the 31st chapter of the Book of Numbers, the fourth book of the Pentateuch (Torah), the central part of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament), a sacred text in Judaism and Christianity. Scholars such as Israel Knohl and Dennis T. Olson name this chapter the War against the Midianites. [ 1 ][ 2 ]