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“From shrines dotted throughout Brazil to T-shirts, political banners, and beauty salons, Anastácia gazes at the world through the prongs of the metal mask that encloses her mouth. Often a penetrating and preternatural blue, the eyes of the black slave woman seem to communicate that which her shackled lips cannot” – Escrava Anastácia: The Iconographic History of a Brazilian Popular Saint , Jerome S. Handler’s and Kelly E. Hayes.
It’s a strong and powerful introduction to a study about a legend praised now as a symbol of black pride and heroic resistance in Brazil. A divine figure, according to some who see a powerful saint in her.
For decades now, the name Escrava Anastácia has been the focus of debates and the center of a growing religious and political movement in the country.
Facts about her existence are scant, to say the least. Most simply refuse to accept she even existed. Even the Catholic Church does not officially recognize her as a saint.
Nevertheless, Saint Escrava Anastacia, or “Anastasia the Enslaved one,” has been the object of affection and devotional practices in Brazil and gained a cult following.
She’s an icon to pray to for the poor, the beaten, the devotees of the Afro-Brazilian religion Umbanda and the Brazilian Spiritist Movement, viewed as a protector saint of the descendants of slaves by millions.
Escrava Anastacia – By Jacques Arago, 1839.
And it all started with an old painting, a small church, and a watercolorist as mysterious as a painting he left behind.
Etienne Victor Arago (1755 – 1855) was a French traveler, a poet, and a painter.
Little is known of his life, however, it is recorded that he arrived on the shores of Brazil sometime around 1817, and once again in 1820, during his travels around the seas between Australia and South America.
Devastated by what he came to witness on both occasions, he drew a quite extensive and extremely unpleasant collection of sketches depicting the life and the misery of the African slaves–some with collars around their necks and iron masks over their heads, allegedly forced on to them to stop them from hiding or swallowing gold nuggets.
Umbanda (Afro-Brazilian religion) figurines
Or if not that, he noted, then to prevent them from killing themselves to escape their misery by eating dirt from the ground.
“I have seen two Negroes whose faces were covered with tin masks (masque de fer-blanc) with holes made for the eyes.”
“They were punished in this manner because their misery caused them to eat earth to end their lives,” he wrote in his 1822 Promenade Autour du Monde Pendant less Année , an illustrated publication in which he illustrates and explains his observations of the enslaved men and women in Rio, Brazil.
He would later explain in his expanded version of 1839, Souvenirs d’un Aveugle , that it was widely accepted practice by slave masters to put on a mask on their slaves to prevent them from killing themselves and escape punishment as masters reasoned.
Etienne Victor Arago, Souvenirs d’un aveugle, voyage autour du monde, t. 1, Paris, 1839.
In truth, the slaves who were most likely suffering from nutritional deficiencies according to recent studies, where eating dirt to survive and not starve to death.
Anyhow, among this not so precious but historically indispensable art collection was an image of a man with piercing blue eyes, a collar around his neck and a brutal, savage, muzzle-like facemask.
Captioned “Chatiment des Esclaves (Brésil)”–Punishment of Slaves (Brazil)–there was no explanation provided to the picture, except that it depicts a man enslaved.
Antique Brazil Photograph: Mt. Corcovado, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, 1893: Original edition from my own archives.
An explanation arrived a century and a half later in 1968, when an exhibition to celebrate 80 years of the abolition of slavery in Brazil revealed a copy of the image engraved at the back of the Church of Rosario in Salvador, Bahia.
It became obvious to all who witnessed it that this was not a man but a woman. And not just any slave, but Escrava Anastácia, the martyr, they argued.
The blue-eyed Nigerian beautiful princess who was kidnapped and brought against her will to Brazil by a cruel master who all the time made sexual advances on her.
She never gave in and repealed them all in absolute defiance according to the story, for which she was tortured and “confined to a face mask.”
Pelourinho – Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Another story goes that she was not a Nigerian princess but an enslaved lady from Angola sold to Brazilan family.
Defiled by her overseer and other white men on her master’s property day and night she never let anyone dare to kiss her or touch her lips.
She was forced to wear the mask and the collar as punishment for her strong will and determination to stay innocent to the end as much as she can. The collar pierced her throat eventually, and she died of gangrene as a result.
Other variants suggest she was born in Brazil, not Africa, and her mother was, in fact, the tortured one.
Jacques Etienne Arago – Castigo de Escravos
Anastácia was a black-skinned blue-eyed child, which was taken as evidence of what white men did to a woman enslaved. Evidence for infidelity as well.
She was sent away immediately to another plantation where just the same, her mother’s fate awaited her.
The owner’s son, Joaquin Antonio, was going mad about the attractive slave that she grew to be, and the free women hated her for it.
According to Carlos de Lima, a famous historian from Brazil, her mother, named Delminda, was a royal descendant of Galanga of the Nigerian Bantu tribe and Anastácia fell victim to these accusers who convinced Antonio that she was aiding other slaves to escape from the plantation.
These are only a few of the many stories in which folks that pray to her believe.
Whether they are true or not is still up for debate, as is her existence for no one up to this day has offered hard proof to back up any of the versions.
Most recently she was the subject of interest for Jerome S. Handler and Kelly E. Hayes, who conducted a study on the African diaspora for the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the Department of Religious Studies at the Indiana University in Indianapolis, Indiana.
The examined the history of this image in an attempt to find out who this mythical figure really was. The woman that many believe is the slave with the iron mask in Victor Arago’s picture, and that found in the small church in 1968.
Anastacia’s monument is located in Cemitério da Soledade, in Belem, Para, Northern Brazil. The cemetery was built in 1850, deactivated in 1880, and remodeled in 1913. Photo by Pedro Belasco/ FLickr CC By 2.0
They came to the conclusion that most likely she wasn’t. Nevertheless, they do try to point out that perhaps this martyr lady personified in Arago’s picture was “a product of Brazil’s particular history and contemporary realities.”
For what is worth, the name, Anastacia means Ressurection in Ancient Greek. So perhaps she doesn’t represent an individual, but the suffering of a population.
And female in particular to represent those most exploited, ignored and forgotten for centuries, unfortunately until very recently, a full century after the abolition of slavery in the country.
A dirt road runs through Pará state in northern Brazil, where many Brazilians claim to have been forced to work in slave-like conditions.
In 1987 a man was found, according to a television news broadcast in Rio, operating a farm with all his workers chained day and night.
Allegedly he lured them in through advertisements in the press of prosperous work opportunities and made slaves out of them once they arrived at his premises.
So in a way perhaps St. Anastacia is not outright fiction. Maybe she is a combination of many sad fates that are true and got lost but were part of the lives of nameless individuals who suffered as this unofficial saint did.
Slaves in a coffee farm in Brazil, c.1885.
After all, what every single story has in common, despite all the differences in all these versions about an enslaved, sexually exploited woman, who endured great hardships and a brutal death, is the very thing people praise her for: her martyr-like persona and the manner in which she conducted herself despite extreme difficulties and slavery.
Her devotees worship her for her relentless spirit. For her “stoicism, serenity and virtuous suffering,” wrote Handler and Hayes.
“Anastacia, Anastacia, holy Anastasia. You who were borne by Yemenja, our mother. Give us the strength to struggle each day, so we may never become slaves. So that, like you, we may be rebellious creatures. May it be so. Amen” – Popular prayer to St. Anastacia.
Martin Chalakoski is one of the authors writing for The Vintage News
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Published: 14:46 BST, 23 February 2022 | Updated: 16:14 BST, 23 February 2022
A dominatrix and her engineer husband have been jailed for five years each after trafficking women from Brazil and Portugal to work in a brothel.   
Fabiana De Souza, 42, and Gareth Derby, 53, treated the women like 'commodities' before they were caught in an undercover sting. 
Police said their sexual exploitation of seven vulnerable women amounted to modern day slavery.
Fabiana De Souza, 42, and her husband Gareth Derby, 53, were found guilty of 'flying in' women to the UK from Europe and South America
The couple converted their garage to be used as a brothel, in addition to a separate flat 
De Souza, who provided dominatrix and discipline services to punters in the posh spa town of to Harrogate, North Yorkshire, was said to be the ringleader of the 'large-scale commercial operation'.
The court heard that she and Derby, who earned around £50,000 a year as an engineer and machine specialist, flew in prostitutes from Brazil and Portugal.
They paid for their flights and met them at airports, before whisking them off to sex dens where men paid for 'massages' and 'full services'.
The prostitutes were put at a 'significant financial disadvantage' and forced to lie to police to avoid detection, the court heard.
De Souza and Derby, who ran the mega-money business from their home in Norfolk, were arrested in August 2018 and charged with controlling prostitution for financial gain and human trafficking.
They each denied the charges, but a jury found them guilty on both counts following a two week trial in December.
They were jailed for five years each when they appeared at Leeds Crown Court for sentencing on Monday.
Prosecutor Nicholas Lumley QC said De Souza rented a two-bed flat in Harrogate so it could be used for sex, which would be advertised on the internet.
He said: 'As soon as the (prostitutes) arrived here, they would be installed in the flat in Harrogate or elsewhere, always with the purpose of being available for sex.'
The pair treated the women like 'commodities' and were caught after a major police operation to protect sex workers, a court heard (pictured is their converted garage) 
The couple even converted the garage at their then home in Springfield Road, Walpole St Andrew, into a prostitution den where a trafficked sex worker plied her trade.
Bundles of cash were found at this address, along with notebooks 'setting out the trading which went on'.
Police also seized 10 mobile phones used by De Souza to take bookings, which showed the 'extent of this operation', the court was told.
De Souza and Derby would pay for sex adverts within hours of picking the women up from the airport and 'setting them up' at the flat on Bower Road in Harrogate.
The adverts were placed on the classified escort websites Viva Street and Adult Work and included raunchy descriptions of the women.
They took the bookings and 'made the arrangements (with the clients)' who would pay various amounts - from £80 for half an hour to over £1,000 for an overnight stay.
The money usually ended up in De Souza's bank accounts, but on occasions cash was handed in by the sex workers, the court heard.
Bundles of cash were found at this address, along with notebooks 'setting out the trading which went on'
Between May 2017 and August 2018, £38,000 in cash was deposited into De Souza's bank accounts at branches in Harrogate and Norfolk.
About £9,000 of bank transfers were then made to accounts in Brazil and Portugal using a money-services bureau.
Following her arrest, De Souza told police she had rented the flat in Harrogate for over £700 a month and let rooms to people including 'friends' from her homeland of Portugal.
Derby said only that he had an 'inkling that Fabia worked at the Harrogate flat as a dominatrix'.
But in a text sent to a friend in January 2018, Derby boasted of being a 'smuggler of women', the court heard.
Police trawled through their bank accounts and found they'd spent 'thousands on air fares' and over £2,000 on Viva Street adverts alone.
They tracked the couple's movements and an undercover officer posed as a client to make appointments for the brothel in Harrogate.
De Souza would answer the calls in 'broken English' and the officer was offered a 'range of services', the court was told.
The couple clearing a flat in Harrogate that they also operated as a brothel 
He was met by a sex worker named 'Lisa' wearing a 'revealing' short-length dressing gown who buzzed him into the flats above shops.
Defending De Souza, Michael Fullerton, said she had a very deprived background and had worked in the sex trade from a very young age.
She had worked in Brazil and then Portugal, at some point as a stripper, before arriving in the UK.
Judge Guy Kearl QC, the Recorder of Leeds, told the couple: 'You were not only partners in marriage, but partners in business (as well).
'This was a properly organised, contrived, criminal business. This was a joint enterprise between the both of you (and) you are each equally culpable.
'You treated these women like commodities to increase your finances.' 
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