Benedita: The Determined Fighter From Vassouras

Everyone in the marketplace laughed when a farmer paid only seven cents for a woman nearly two meters tall, a figure many buyers had already dismissed as useless and uncontrollable for labor. The crowd believed no employer would ever manage her strength.

They said her size brought only problems, that her presence would lead to losses rather than productivity in any working environment. Yet among the noise and ridicule stood Joaquim Lacerda, a farmer who did not react like the others.