90. Rio’s Royal Struggle with Smallpox (S&S)
- Author
- Sam
- Published
- Tue 02 Sep 2025
- Episode Link
- http://sites.libsyn.com/568995/90-rios-struggle-with-a-child-kings-curse-and-smallpox-ss
Step into the steamy, sugarcane soaked plains of 1850s Rio de Janeiro, where a boy-king, Dom Pedro II, wears a crown haunted by his father’s sudden death. At 25, he faces a deadly outbreak threatening his empire and his beloved Empress Teresa.
A folk remedy crafted by an enslaved healer wielding Africa’s ancient secrets and a freedman with a dark past might be the answer to their problems.
