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  2. Afro-Brazilians - Wikipedia

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    Afro-Brazilians. Afro-Brazilians (Portuguese: afro-brasileiros; pronounced [ˈafɾo bɾaziˈle (j)ɾus]), also known as Black Brazilians (Portuguese: Negros Brasileiros), are an ethno-racial group consisting of Brazilians with predominantly or total Sub-Saharan African ancestry. Most multiracial Brazilians also have a range of degree of African ...

  3. Afro-Brazilian history - Wikipedia

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    African origins. The Africans brought to Brazil belonged to two major groups: the West African and the Bantu people. The West African people (previously known as Sudanese, and without connection with Sudan) were sent in large scale to Bahia. They mostly belong to the Ga-Adangbe, Yoruba, Igbo, Fon, Ashanti, Ewe, Mandinka, and other West African ...

  4. Race and ethnicity in Brazil - Wikipedia

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    Portuguese immigrants arriving in Rio de Janeiro European immigrants arriving in São Paulo. The Brazilian population was formed by the influx of Portuguese settlers and African slaves, mostly Bantu and West African populations [4] (such as the Yoruba, Ewe, and Fanti-Ashanti), into a territory inhabited by various indigenous South American tribal populations, mainly Tupi, Guarani and Ge.

  5. Afro-Brazilian culture - Wikipedia

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    Afro-Brazilian culture is the combination of cultural manifestations in Brazil that have suffered some influence from African culture since colonial times until the present day. Most of Africa's culture reached Brazil through the transatlantic slave trade, where it was also influenced by European and indigenous cultures, which means that ...

  6. List of Brazilians of Black African descent - Wikipedia

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    Black Brazilian is a term used to categorise by race or color Brazilians who are black. 10.2% of the population of Brazil consider themselves black (preto).Though, the following lists include some visually mixed-race Brazilians, a group considered part of the black population by the Brazilian Black Movement.

  7. Black movement in Brazil - Wikipedia

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    Social movements involving Black groups are found throughout Brazil's history. However, until the abolition of slavery in 1888, these social movements were almost always clandestine and radical in nature since their main objective was the liberation of black slaves. Since slaves were treated like private property, escapes and insurrections ...

  8. Mixed-race Brazilian - Wikipedia

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    White/Black relationships in Brazil started as early as the first Africans were brought as slaves in 1550 where many portuguese men starting marrying black women. The Mulattoes (people of White/Black ancestry) were also enslaved, [citation needed] though some children of rich aristocrats and owners of gold mines were educated and became ...

  9. Tabom people - Wikipedia

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    Tabom people. The Agudas or Tabom are the Afro-Brazilian community in the south of Benin, Togo and Ghana who are mostly of Yoruba descent. [1][2] The Tabom People are an Afro-Brazilian community of former enslaved peoples who returned to Africa (Ghana). When they arrived in Jamestown, Accra they could speak only Portuguese, and would ...