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Castro Alves

Died in 1871

Antônio Frederico de Castro Alves was born on 14 March 1847 on the Cabaceiras farm (fazenda), in Bahia. A pupil in Salvador, he studied law in Recife from 1864 and then in São Paulo, frequented abolitionist circles and declaimed his verse in public. From 1866 to 1868 he had a liaison with the Portuguese actress Eugênia Câmara, ten years his senior. In November 1868, a gunshot received while hunting wounded him in the foot, which had to be amputated. He died of tuberculosis in Salvador on 6 July 1871.

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