The executioner victims (paperback edition)

An abolitionist novel by Joaquim Manuel de Macedo, author of eleven books, including the classic A Moreninha (Little Moreninha), which pioneered romantic fiction in Brazil. Published in 1869, just nineteen years before the abolition of slavery, *As Victims of the Abolition* is a work composed of three stories that illustrate not only the suffering of slaves but also the harm slavery inflicted on free masters themselves. According to the author, this system created socially oppressed victims who became perverse, immoral, and corrupt, and for this reason, slavery should be abolished. Essential reading for understanding the thinking of the second half of the 19th century regarding slavery and its consequences for society.