"Os senhores não entendiam": Ana Maria Gonçalves explica a Revolta dos Malês | Roberto D'Avila

In an interview with the Roberto D'Avila program, writer Ana Maria Gonçalves highlighted the intellectual sophistication of the enslaved people who led the Malê Revolt in Salvador in 1835. According to the author, the rebels were extremely cultured and used Arabic characters to encode messages in their native languages, preventing the plantation owners from understanding their liberation plans. The writer explained that in her work "Um Defeito de Cor" (A Flaw of Color), she sought to portray the cruelty of slavery from the perspective of a seven-year-old child, Kehindé. For Ana Maria, narrating episodes of violence from a child's point of view functions as a psychological defense mechanism that helps to understand the impact of the enslavement process on childhood. When discussing the racial issue, Gonçalves criticized the historical attempt to sell the image of a Brazil with harmonious coexistence between races, emphasizing that the concept of race was an invention of colonial capitalism. She defended the importance of Black intellectuals occupying spaces of visibility and privilege to deconstruct these narratives of the past. ➡️ Subscribe to our channel and activate the bell 🔔 to find out everything that's happening: http://glo.bo/4lQEsCL #GloboNews #Slavery #AnaMariaGonçalves #ProgramaRobertoDavila