Luiz Gonzaga Pinto da Gama was a Brazilian Romantic poet, journalist, lawyer, Republican and a prominent abolitionist.
Gama was born in 1830, to a Portuguese fidalgo who lost all his fortune with gambling, and Lusa Mahin , a free African woman of Mina nation. According to Gama, she was involved in a rebellions that may have been the 1835 Mal Revolt.
Source: Wikipedia