Foundation that brings together the story of one of the greatest Brazilian intellectuals does not remember that he burned the papers of slavery
Máxima visited several museums in the city of Rio de Janeiro (RJ) in recent days and observed that, in all of them, there is some type of historical repair. White, cis and heteronormative spaces, even if little by little, open up to diversity. The Casa de Rui Barbosa Foundation did not join the bandwagon.
Rui Barbosa is widely remembered as the person who was responsible for burning the papers from the time of the enslavement of black people in Brazil. This prevented these people from being able – based on receipts and other documents from their terrible sales – to ask for any type of compensation.
Academic researchers have made an effort to rescue what was left of this bonfire – which should never have existed. At least on the visit to Rui Barbosa’s House it seems that he never ordered the evidence of the horror of slavery to disappear.
That said, now we remember that he was one of those responsible for the Civil Code and an applauded Brazilian diplomat. The house is beautiful, the gardens wonderful, the architecture fantastic and the decor almost impeccable. There’s a lot of Brazilian history inside, thousands of books, important documents – that escaped the fire of erasure.
It’s one of those places that, after visiting, we wait for the repair we’ve been dreaming of to appear. Dove?
By Ezatamentchy
Source: Maxima
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