Tiodoras Letters HC an Enslaved Womans Fight for Family and Freedom (MR)

(W/A/CA) Marcelo D Salete In the mid-19th century, millions of Africans were enslaved and brought to Brazil. Among them was the real-life Teodora who, separated from her husband and her son, worked in the home of a priest in S?o Paulo. Wishing to reconstruct the family ties lost during the journey from Africa to Brazil and to achieve emancipation for herself and her family, she gave Claro, a Black man who could read and write, money to help her write letters: some addressed to her husband and her son, whereabouts unknown, in the hopes that the letters would find them and that they could achieve this quest together; and some addressed to enslavers, intended to either help locate her family or to persuade them to let her buy her freedom. Inspired by this correspondence, Tiodora?s Letters is a rigorously researched historical work, a compelling narrative based on her letters, and masterfully drawn by D?Salete, who graphically recreates her struggle. In the 1860s, Ben?, a fictional Black young man who likes Tiodora because she was kind to him, takes it upon himself to seek Ti?s family a