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Xica da Silva
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Xica da, Xica da, Xica da, Xica da Silva, the Black.1
Xica da, Xica da, Xica da, Xica da Silva, the Black.
Xica da Silva, the Black, the Black.
From slave to lover, woman, woman,
of the nobleman and caretaker, João Fernandes.2
Xica da, Xica da, Xica da, Xica da Silva, the Black.
Xica da, Xica da, Xica da, Xica da Silva, the Black.
The empress of Tijuco,3
the lady of Diamantina,4
lived with her court
surrounded by pretty maids,
in a castle in the field of straws
with a solid and refined architecture,
where there was an articifical lake
and a luxurious church,5
that her love, João Fernandes, the caretaker,
ordered to be build just for her - ay, ay, ay...
Xica da, Xica da, Xica da, Xica da Silva, the Black.
Xica da, Xica da, Xica da, Xica da Silva, the Black.
Very rich and envied,
feared and hated.
Because of her wigs,
every one of them of a heart,
jewelry, exotic garments
from the Indies, Lisboa and Paris,
the Black was required
to be received like an important lady
of the court of King Louis,6
of the court of King Louis.
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Xica da, Xica da, Xica da, Xica da Silva, the Black.
Xica da, Xica da, Xica da, Xica da Silva, the Black.
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Chu, churu.
Chu, churu.
Chu, churu.
Chu, churu.
Xica da, Xica da, Xica da, Xica da Silva...
Xica da, Xica da, Xica da, Xica da Silva...
Xica da, Xica da, Xica da, Xica da Silva...
- 1. Francisca da Silva (c. 1732 - 1796).
- 2. João Fernandes de Oliveira (1720 - 1779).
- 3. Arraial do Tijuco; today Diamantina, see below.
- 4. Diamantina, Minas Gerais.
- 5. Due to Xica's background as a slave and her black skin colour she was banished from the parish church. Therefore, João built her a luxurious church, which only she could attend.
- 6. Portugal only had one king by the name Louis through its monarchy's history. That was King Louis I (Rei Luís I). However, his reign didn't begin before 1838.
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Xica da Silva (or Chica da Silva) was a nickname given by the public to a Brazilian woman by the name Francisca da Silva, born around 1732 in Vila do Príncipe (modern-day Serro), in the state of Minas Gerais; and died in 1796 in Diamantina, Minas Gerais. She was a child of Maria da Costa, a slave from an area around the Gulf of Guinea, Africa; and a Portuguese man, Antônio Caetano de Sá.
She was a slave all her life untill she met João Fernandes de Oliveira, a contractor of diamond mines, who originally also bought her as a slave. However, they eventually fell in love, and she became his wife, which caused a scandal in colonial Brazil. It ultimately led to the rise of the myth of the slave who became a queen.