death_date nationality ethnicity birth_date genre alma_mater death_place imagesize image name occupation caption birth_place relatives partner movement subject notableworks article_title birth_name
6 july 1871 brazilian white 14 march 1847 poetry , theatre university of são paulo salvador , bahia , brazil 200px castro alves.png castro alves poet , playwright castro alves , 1870 castro alves , bahia , brazil josé antônio da silva castro eugênia câmara romanticism abolitionism , republicanism , love '' , '' o navio negreiro '' espumas flutuantes '' , '' vozes d'África '' castro alves
 antônio frederico de castro alves
castro alves

antônio frederico de castro alves -lrb- march 14 , 1847 -- july 6 , 1871 -rrb- was a brazilian poet and playwright , famous for his abolitionist and republican poems .
one of the most famous poets of the `` condorism '' , he won the epithet of `` o poeta dos escravos '' -lrb- '' `` the poet of the slaves '' '' -rrb- .
he is the patron of the 7th chair of the brazilian academy of letters .
