Enslavement in Brazil
This country received the largest number of enslaved Africans during the Atlantic slave trade.
What is Brazil?
This martial art developed by enslaved Africans in Brazil combines music, dance, and fighting.
What is capoeira?
By 1888, this number of Africans were still enslaved in Brazil.
What is 1.5 million?
The U.S. banned the importation of enslaved Africans in this year.
What is 1808?
Brazil was the last country in the Americas to do this in 1888.
What is abolish slavery?
Most enslaved Africans in Brazil worked on these kinds of enterprises, which changed over time.
What are sugar plantations, gold mines, and coffee plantations?
The primary rocking step used in capoeira is called this.
What is the ginga?
The law that abolished slavery in Brazil in 1888 was known as this.
What is the Lei Áurea (Golden Act)?
Even after the ban, the U.S. enslaved population grew mainly because of this practice.
What is hereditary slavery (children born into slavery)?
Compared to Brazil, the U.S. enslaved population did this during the 19th century.
What is increased?
Approximately half of the 10 million Africans who survived this journey landed in Brazil.
What is the Middle Passage?
This celebration honors the King of Kongo and Our Lady of the Rosary.
What is the congada?
This princess signed the Golden Act, ending slavery in Brazil.
Who is Princess Isabel?
This phrase describes how the status of a child followed that of their mother.
What is partus sequitur ventrem?
Immigrant labor began replacing enslaved labor in Brazil during this period.
What is the late 1800s?
The average enslaved African in Brazil lived to this age.
What is 23 years old?
Capoeira was seen as a form of this by enslaved Africans, leading to it being policed and outlawed.
What is self-defense (and spirituality)?
These two influences made manumission (release from slavery) more common in Brazil.
What are Iberian law and the Catholic Church?
By the time of the Emancipation Proclamation, about this many Africans were enslaved in the U.S.
What is 4 million?
Both the U.S. and Brazil had economies built around these types of large-scale agricultural systems
What are plantations?
The majority of Africans enslaved in Brazil embarked from this port city in Angola.
What is Luanda?
The Bantu concept that emphasizes drawing strength from ancestors during dance or ritual is called this.
What is kalunga?
By the late 1800s, this percentage of Black or mixed-race Brazilians were free.
What is 75%?
By the mid-1800s, this crop had replaced sugar as the most lucrative in the U.S.
What is cotton?
Brazil’s cultural traditions like capoeira and congada demonstrate this key feature of African diasporic identity.
What is cultural preservation and adaptation (syncretism)?