at a glance

located between leblon beach and lagoa rodrigo de freitas, Cruzada São Sebastião is made up of 10 blocks, each with seven floors, and containing 906 apartments housing around 5,000 people. 

Presented by Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa, the study As camélias do Leblon e a abolição da escravatura,(The camellias of Leblon and the abolition of slavery) by Eduardo Silva, reconstructs forgotten episodes starting from when princess Isabel welcomed run-away slaves into her palace.

The final crisis of slavery, in Brazil, gave rise to a new model of resistance, which could be termed abolitionist quilombo.