The City of Children: Innocent Bodies, Criminal Minds

“When, on May 13, 1888, Princess Isabel signed the Golden Law there were still 723,419 slaves in our country. To reach that victory, that has maintained the name of The Redeemer [Isabel] in the hearts of Brazilians, the entire nation mobilized; the parties rose up; for many years Parliament was in a constant state of agitation; much of the press went all out for the liberation of the slaves. [Now] We cannot remain impassive, with our arms crossed, in the face of the fate of millions of Brazilians who, still in childhood or youth, live handcuffed to misery or sickness and who, unprotected, will march to an even more humiliating captivity: crime and prison.”