"O melhor antídoto à sedução do poder é a espiritualidade. Quem gosta de si mesmo não precisa mendigar o olhar alheio" (Frei Betto).
My Hero is João Cândido Felisberto. The leader of “Revolta da Chibata”! He was born in Rio Grande do Sul, your family was very poor Afro-Brazilian. His father and mother were former slaves. He entered the Brazilian Navy in 1894 at the age of 13, like volutary. In his epoca 99% of sailor was crime men arrest by police! The conditions for Brazilian sailors at the time were terrible, and being a black, Felisberto suffered even more from the prejudice of his white and latino colleagues in the Brazilian navy. Joao Candido was stationed in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne in England for two years during the construction of the dreadnought Minas Geraes , and it was while experiencing the living conditions and increased freedoms of Newcastle that Felisberto realised how unacceptable conditions in the Brazilian Navy were. In 1910, after a hugely unpopular whipping of a sailor, he led a revolt, known in Brazil as "Revolta da Chibata" ("Revolt of the Whip"). Sailors took control...
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