{"id":8845,"date":"2015-11-18T22:12:16","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T03:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/?p=8845"},"modified":"2015-11-18T22:12:16","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T03:12:16","slug":"brazils-only-slave-memoir-to-be-published-in-portuguese-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2015\/11\/18\/brazils-only-slave-memoir-to-be-published-in-portuguese-for-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil&#8217;s only slave memoir to be published in Portuguese for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Douglas: More than 4 million Africans, or some 40% of all the slaves that crossed the Atlantic, landed in Brazil. Yet despite the African population\u2019s profound impact on the country, the teaching of Afro-Brazilian history still encounters serious resistance. \u201cI think it\u2019s shameful that slavery has not been examined very deeply in Brazil,\u201d Ver\u00e1s said. \u201cIt\u2019s a past that those in power want to forget. But this legacy for a part of the population that is still marginalised should not be forgotten.\u201d More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/nov\/17\/brazils-only-slave-memoir-published-portuguese-mahommah-gardo-baquaqua\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Douglas: More than 4 million Africans, or some 40% of all the slaves that crossed the Atlantic, landed in Brazil. Yet despite the African population\u2019s profound impact on the country, the teaching of Afro-Brazilian history still encounters serious resistance. \u201cI think it\u2019s shameful that slavery has not been examined very deeply in Brazil,\u201d Ver\u00e1s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2015\/11\/18\/brazils-only-slave-memoir-to-be-published-in-portuguese-for-first-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brazil&#8217;s only slave memoir to be published in Portuguese for first time<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8846,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8845\/revisions\/8846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}