African Arrival
This forced migration brought millions of Africans to Brazil between the 1500s and 1800s.
What is the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
Enslaved Africans in Brazil were commonly forced to work on sugar plantations and in these underground workplaces.
What are Mines
African rhythms strongly influenced this Brazilian music style often performed during Carnival.
African resistance helped shape Brazil’s ongoing struggles for this social principle.
The number Neymar wears for Brazilian National Team
What is 10
Brazil received more enslaved Africans than any other country in the Americas under this empire’s rule.
What is Portuguese Empire?
What is sunset to sunrise?
This Brazilian dance-fighting style has roots in African resistance and self-defense.
What is capoeira?
African traditions in Brazil are most visible today in music, food, religion, and this cultural event.
What is the Carnival?
Name of Brazil's Wonder of the World
What is Christ the Redeemer
This system transported enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to Brazil.
What is the Middle Passage?
Enslaved Africans were legally considered this, rather than people, under Brazilian colonial law.
What is Property
This Afro-Brazilian religion blends African spiritual beliefs with Catholicism.
What is Candomblé?
Communities founded by formerly enslaved Africans that still exist today are officially recognized by Brazil under this name
What are quilombos
Capital of Brazil
These African regions supplied a large number of enslaved people to Brazil due to Portugal’s early trade networks and coastal forts
*bonus point for specific*
What is Central and Western Africa?
Specifically Angola and Benin
Many enslaved Africans resisted their conditions by escaping to these hidden communities.
What are Quilombos
“This Afro-Brazilian ingredient, introduced by enslaved Africans, is essential to dishes like acarajé and vatapá.”
Type of Oil
What is Dende Oil
The percent of Afro-Brazilian terreiros reported experiencing racist or religious violence
80%
Number of World Cups Won by Brazil
What is 5
By the 19th century, this single port city received more enslaved Africans than any other port in the Americas.
What is Rio de Janeiro?
This law, passed in 1888, officially ended slavery in Brazil.
What is the Golden Law (Lei Áurea)
“Words like samba, moleque, and dendê in Brazilian Portuguese trace back primarily to this African language family.”
What is Bantu Language
This percent faced harassment on social media
What is 52%?
The country that Brazil shares the largest border with
Due to French Guiana