Chica da Silva

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Francisca da Silva de Oliveira, known as Chica da Silva, was a famous Brazilian slave, born in Diamantina, Minas Gerais, in 1732. She was the daughter of a Portuguese man, Antônio Caetano de Sá, with his African slave, Maria da Costa, from the Gulf of Guinea. Chica was bought as a slave by João Fernandes de Oliveira, a rich owner of gold mines. Then, she got married to him and became one of the richest women of Colonial Brazil.[1]

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