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The present work is a study of the narratives of slaves of Brazil, written by slaves themselves in the African diaspora, we analyse the autobiographic texts and testimonies as the "Letter" of Esperança Garcia, 1770; the poetry of Luiz Gama; An Interesting Narrative of Mahommah G. Baquaqua.

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The present work is a study of the narratives of slaves of Brazil, written by slaves themselves in the African diaspora, from the comparative analysis of autobiographical texts and testimonies as the "Letter" of Esperança Garcia (1770). This document is hugely important for it represents slave resistance besides being a valuable piece of writing, a letter written by a slave's own hand, who historical value is priceless it is a rare slavery narrative in colonial Brazil, chiefly for the fact it is a document written by a slave woman who dares to write directly/straight to Governor of the Captaincy of Piauí himself to present her claims against the manager of royal estates. The poet Luiz Gama lost contact with his mother and, when he was ten, he was sold as a slave by his father, white noble Portuguese. Once freed from illegal captivity, years later Luiz Gama holds the position of "the precursor of abolitionism in Brazil". As well as one of the forerunners of African-Brazilian literature by publishing the book of poems Getulino's first burlesque ballads (1859-1961 The book An Interesting Narrative of Mahommah G. Baquaqua (1854), by Mahommah G. Baquaqua, an African who, once freed from slavery on a runaway trip to New York, in 1847. Years later, he tells his experiences as a slave in Brazil from 1845 to 1847.