Manuel Raimundo Querino, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetManuel Raimundo Querino
Brazilian writer
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Place of Birth: Santo Amaro, Bahia, Brazil
About Manuel Raimundo Querino
- Manuel Raimundo Querino (July 28, 1851 - February 14, 1923) was a prominent Afro-Brazilian artist and intellectual.
- Querino's pioneering ethnographic works focused on the contributions of Africans to Brazilian history and culture.
- Assessing his contributions, the historian E.
- Bradford Burns says, "Querino was the first black to write Brazilian history, a task to which he brought a much-needed perspective."
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