A ESCRAVA ISAURA

A Escrava Isaura 6.109 · 6.109

Son of a Miguelist family

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De feito Miguel era filho de uma nobre e honrada familia de Miguelistas,

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In fact Miguel was the son of a noble and honorable family of Miguelists,

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His origin is fixed to a real chapter of Portuguese history: the Miguelists, partisans of the absolutist Dom Miguel who lost the civil war of the 1830s and were driven into exile. Miguel is a political refugee of good blood — his fall is the wreck of a whole losing cause.

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