Untold Story Of Pata Seca: Forced To Breed Over 200 Black Slave Children

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that paraseka passed away because his heart stopped working he had myocarditis heart failure senility and sclerosis the number of kids he had was written in an old book from the fazendagrangi but the family says they have no official records about any of them and are searching for his children online here’s how it all started Roque Jose florencio was born in 1828 in surakaba Sao Paulo this was by the turn of the 19th century when Brazil was still a Portuguese Colony most of the people who lived there were of European descent some were

German others were Italian in Spanish there was a considerable Dutch influence along the northeastern Coast as you might already know slavery was still going strong especially with the slaves of African origin Dutch slave Traders brought about 600 000 enslaved Africans to the new world that’s five to six percent of the total number of the transatlantic slave trade Roque was a powerful man with a muscular physique but he too was one of the many unfortunate black people who got kid there’s no record of his parents or

siblings that’s because he was separated from them at a very young age he never saw or heard from them again his owner forced him to work as a field laborer and a slave breeder Brooke was very strong and more than seven feet tall he was very charismatic intelligent and brave people called him pataseka which means dry foot in Portuguese now there are different speculations as to where he got that nickname some say he was called that way because he could walk Barefoot on the hot soil and feel no pain others claim he had a skin

condition which made his feet very dry a more interesting Theory suggests that he earned that nickname because everywhere he went he would leave no traces behind making it difficult for his captors to track him down when pataseka was captured he was taken to the Villas oracaba and sold to viscande Da cunha Bueno this white man owned a plantation that produced coffee and lived a relatively lavish life at time a popular Superstition was that a tall and robust man could father more male babies male slaves were critical for hard labor

while enslaved he had no choice but to have unprotected sex with countless enslaved women he had to produce more enslaved children to survive in bondage the children would then be sold as Commodities on the slave market children born into these relationships were often kept under the watchful eye of their masters white women and men often took the children away from their parents and brought them to that big house at first they used them as servants who carried out domestic chores and worked long hours this way the Masters controlled

what the children ate they wanted to make sure the children would be fit to carry out different tasks when they grew up many of these children would later be used as potential slave breeders especially the boys just as their parents were forced to reproduce this was very traumatic but it was a massive part of an enslaved person’s life to become the perfect breeding tool Pata Seiko was fed well and received careful health checks his family says he fathered a mind-blowing 249 children with different women many of them were

born into slavery because they could produce so many children his owners treated him relatively well he became an invaluable and indispensable tool here was a family member of Pat the Sega holding his picture even though pataseka suffered as a slave he still loved his kids he taught them essential skills like reading fighting and staying alive many of those children became leaders of communities of black slaves who resisted the slave regime patasega 2 rebelled against plantation owners and led slaver votes there are not many documents to

prove that but oral stories from locals and his ancestors say that he spent many years of his life Fighting For Freedom fun fact if you hit the like button and share this video it helps us fight against the system that wants to ban our history and prevent you from learning this kind of information during the first half of the 19th century Brazil witnessed many conspiracies in slavervaults mainly across the sugar plantations Collective slave resistance did happen before in Brazil but slaves had never demonstrated such military

capability as they did between the years of 1807 and 1835 Prosperity from sugar plantations in the region lasted until the early 1820s but then everything changed when the area suffered social violence economic downturns and natural disasters the economy depended on slave labor and foreign markets in 1822 Brazil became this meant there were new political Trends and baia a state of Brazil during the 1820s and 1830s there were a lot of protests Revolt by the military and uprisings against the Portuguese the Portuguese soldiers held their ground

for about a year but these events were so common that they shook the nation this made things even worse for the sugar industry this was also a time when Bahia faced severe droughts lots of people left the countryside and went to the cities of reconcavo and Salvador in March 1834 the leaders in the town of kashaweda said that the price of manioc flour an essential food for many people became extremely high and many had died because of hunger food prices went up a lot due to high inflation of course boot storage made the slave diet a million

times worse in 1845 historical records of a planter show the white man shamelessly confessed that slaves are badly fed worse clothed and worked so hard that their lives do not exceed six years this kind of treatment fueled countless slave rebellions in the region because so many people died why white slave owners often force their slaves to give birth to more babies and replenish their labor force but there was one thing they missed the massive influx of Africans both enslaved and Free People in the late 18th and early 19th century

created a sizable black majority in the Brazilian population this is where the tables turned black people started planning large-scale revolts they would form kilombos across Brazil which were communities organized by fugitive slaves killumbos were found in remote places and usually had less than 100 people who lived off farming and raiding the biggest and well-known ones were palmares which became like its own little country by the 1690s it had around 20 000 people living there it was successful because they had a lot of

suitable land for farming and they also took slaves from Portuguese Farms to help them Thrive pataseka once led a Revolt that helped Escape slaves find refuge in one of these communities in the region of pernambuco back then pranabuko used to be the fifth biggest producer of sugarcane in Brazil other than breeding pataseka was also responsible for caring for the horses and transporting correspondents from the farm to the city and back it was then when he was working as a courier that he met his wife he was on his way to pick

up some letters in Sal Carlos when he saw a young thin woman constantly sweeping the area one day he proposed to the girl and when she said yes he helped her onto a horse and they went to the farm they got married and pataseka was given 20 bushels of land as a gift after having more than 200 kids in the slave quarters he decided to create his own family with Palmyra and together they had nine there’s not much information about Palmyra except that she was a skilled healer and she regularly took care of the sick and injured she was a good and

fair woman who took good care of her children she was an excellent mother and a great wife I mean they both lived in such dark times that even the simplicities of Life proved to be invaluable parasika had seen it all he was alive when slavery was abolished in 1888 and when the Republic was established in 1889 he saw plenty of presidents and dictators fall two world wars and many social movements everyone seemed to like him local separaseka was religious and often organized parties to honor Sao Zhang Saint John and he always

welcomed guests warmly Magdalena is proud to share her grandfather’s story she said that ever since she was a little girl she heard a lot about his stories alpata stood up for what was right and how he was always wearing a white shirt and Standing Tall her grandfather made it a habit to keep the area around the Farm’s house clean which was surrounded by mango trees Uncle Zay was the one who prepared the coffee had as usual breakfast was cornmeal cooked with lard in Black Coffee you would bring the coffee to Palmyra who

unfortunately lost her sight due to complications from one of her childbirths for lunch he usually had rice with beans with pork rinds or chicken when it was time to sleep he would rest in a bed and made of corn straw mattress interestingly it was from this bed that a nail fell and injured his foot Magdalena said he got an infection these remedies from the slave quarters smoke urine and alcohol a girl took care of it but she went to Rio preto and got it worse Pato was taken to Santa Casa Giselle Carlos he lived a

long life and passed away in February 1958 at the age of 130 just three months after being part of the city’s birthday parade as an oldest man in the area the only picture of the family’s patriarch is from this very parade after years of searching Magdalena discovered that an old friend of her grandfather had the photo eventually the friend’s relative found the picture in his wallet today the photo proudly sits on the Shelf in magdalena’s house where anyone can see it she keeps souvenirs behind the door including the old house keys and a nail

like one that caused her grandfather’s foot injury in the kitchen she follows the same recipe to make rapadura according to her her grandfather lived a longer life because unlike many other slaves he lived in the main house and had better food A lot happened during pataseka’s lifetime from 1864 to 1870 Kata also saw the paraguayan war also known as The War of the Triple Alliance it was the bloodiest conflict in Latin American history about two-thirds of Paraguay’s population died during the battles including around 90 of its men

Brazil transitioned from a monarchy to a republic in 1889 establishing the first Brazilian Republic Pato was also alive during the coffee export boom from the late 19th to the early 20th century in fact coffee accounted for 63 percent of the country’s exports making it a lucrative business one other thing you’ve seen the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio Genero right since Pato was born in 1828 and died in 1858 he was there when this colossal statue was built but there is more Paris saw the revolution of 1930 after losing the

president election in 1930 jetullio Vargas the governor of Rio Grande dosul led a military Uprising that changed the government of Brazil this Rebellion started in Puerto Alegre the capital of Rio Grande dosul a state in the southern part of Brazil the revolution happened partly because the Sao Paulo state had been controlling Brazil a lot since the monarchy fell in 1889.

 a few years before Pata died Brazil hosted and won the FIFA World Cup in 1950. I mean he saw Brazil change from the slavery era to a modern day nation with stunning beaches diverse cities rainforests and Incredibly popular tourist attractions Pata died of old age his heart had given up and he passed quietly in his bed plenty of friends and family members were there to support him and pay tribute with prayers and songs they lamented his laws and paid the respects at his funeral his remains are in Santa ayodoshia Cemetery where his loved ones

erected a monument in his honor the problem is the only living record of this man comes from his descendants he was born at a time when there was not enough evidence or birth certificates that he lived for 130 years the oldest verified person to have ever lived is jean-lurise calmend who was 122 years old black people back then were not considered even humans and very few lived a long time if Pata indeed lived that long as the locals and his family say that he would have broken their record easily the thing is there is a

huge possibility that Pata could have fathered that many children he was forced to have unprotected sex with many different women on a daily basis so when you do that your whole life you can have more than 200 kids but there is also a possibility he could have contracted a bunch of diseases many of which there is no record of as you can much of padasega’s Life remains a mystery he was born in a period that was just unbelievably cruel and disgusting there were things that happened that we couldn’t even fathom and just because

there are no official documents to prove that it doesn’t mean it didn’t happen pata’s descendants and many locals who knew him say he was a well-known slave someone with power and enormous height this made him a favorable candidate as a breeding slave Pat to sick has spent most of his life in slavery but he also lived to see slavery abolished he outlived many of the people he knew and saw Brazil change from a nation depended on slave labor to a modern day Society we know today if you’d like to learn more about some black history they never

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