Leoncio Almeida

Leoncio Almeida is the main villain of the 2004 telenovela A Escrava Isaura (The Slave Isaura), an adaptation of the book of the same name. Leoncio is based of the character of the same name who appears in said book.

He was portrayed by Leopoldo Pacheco.

History
When he was a child, he watched all the immoral attitudes his father the Commander had, like his extravagances, his adulterous affairs with the female slaves and his whippings to his slaves. He specially presenced the moment when the Commander whipped the slave Juliana because she didn't want to sleep with him, and just after she gave birth to Isaura, a white mulatto who was the daughter of his former foreman, Miguel.

In the school, he was absolutely mischievous. He always caused disorder in the classes and threatened the teachers to put snakes in the classrooms. In home, whenever he misbehaved, her mother Gertrudis disciplined him, but his father was more often than not overindulgent with him.

hen he grew up, he wasn't any better. He once raped a female slave in the outskirts and was so violent that the slave died after getting hit by a stone in the floor. Manuela, André's mother, watched everything while she was gathering leaves to prepare tea for Gertrudes. Leoncio lied to his parents about the death of that slave, but Manuela told the Commander the truth, so Leoncio was whipped by his father, while wishing to kill Manuela. He commanded the current foreman, Francisco "Chico", to poison Manuela with shnapps. The slaves, including her lover Joao and her sister Joaquina, didn't know the real cause of her death. Years later, when he was sent to the university, he stopped studying and instead he was spending the money, specially with prostitutes. He made his parents believe that he was studying and once he sent them a letter saying he won't come because he preferred to study. The Commander knew that his son was lying. Leoncio eventually returned to Campos.

The Commander later received a payment letter with a huge debt and discovered that Leoncio wasn't studying. He managed to know that his son was in Campos living in concubinage with a woman. He got angry and went towards the place both cohabited, wanting to punish Leoncio.

He, indeed was with that woman, who was called Tomasia. When she informed him that she was pregnant from him, he revealed that he never loved her and insulted her saying her that she was a poor woman, he would never marry her and the son could be of another person. The Commander arrived and lectured Leoncio for what he did and also insulted her. When she told her that she was pregnant of Leoncio, the Commander surprised, but Leoncio claimed that the baby could be of everyone, and insulted her. Both went to home and the Commander told him that he would be married to Malvina, the Colonel Sebastiao's daughter. When both went home, Gertrudes received with open hands to his son.