Book, Inquisition: prisoners of Brazil[LS]

1076 prisoners were taken from Brazil to the Inquisition prisons in Portugal, during colonial times, because they felt and thought 'differently'. Judaism, Lutheranism, Islam, as well as witchcraft, sodomy, bigamy, heretical propositions and blasphemies, were considered crimes and punished with moral degradation, exile, confiscation, perpetual imprisonment or death at the stake. As the Court's survival depended on confiscation, the inquisitorial moloch clamored for more offerings, recreating heresies whenever they cooled. . The Inquisition was above all a racist institution, which discriminated and excluded, by law, the descendants of Jews, Arabs, Gypsies, blacks and mulattos, as far as memory could reach. To this forced imposition of belief and thought, the different ethnic groups responded with a clandestine protest, refusing dogmas, sowing free criticism and perpetuating their ancestral customs. . The sources presented here, in Inquisition: Prisoners of Brazil, by renowned historian and researcher Anita Waingort Novinsky, lead to this underground and clandestine Portuguese-Brazilian world, and which reveal 'another' history of Brazil, still hidden and largely unexplored .