Dragão do Mar

Francisco José do Nascimento (April 15, 1839 – March 5, 1914), known as Dragão do Mar (Sea Dragon), was an Afro-Brazilian raft fisherman (jangadeiro), pilot and abolitionist figure, who in 1881 led a strike of his fellow jangadeiros in the port of Fortaleza, state of Ceará, refusing to transport enslaved black people to be sold in Rio de Janeiro and other Brazilian provinces.

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