Augustus Earle’s Negroes fighting, Brazils
Augustus Earle’s Negroes fighting, Brazils By Sarah Thomas. Excerpt adapted from chapter 6, from the book Witnessing Slavery: Art and Travel in the Age of…
The imprisonment of capoeiras on Ilha Grande
By Myrian Sepúlveda dos Santos and Gabriel da Silva Vidal Cid. Background The history of the Dois Rios Correctional Colony, established in 1894 on the…
Classic sources of capoeira history: Plácido de Abreu, 1886
The Portuguese writer and poet Plácido de Abreu published the novel Os capoeiras in 1886. Its introduction entitled “Two Words” represents a fundamental reference for…
Benguela and Brazil
By Mariana P. Candido. Histories that problematise colonialism Benguela. Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino. The Angolan city of Benguela, also known as Ombaka in Umbundu, is the…
Capoeira and Politics – Contemporary Capoeira
By Carlos Eugênio Líbano Soares. The party of order and disorder: capoeiras and the political struggle at the imperial court of Rio de Janeiro 1870-1890…
Prata Preta: an exiled capoeira
By KK Bonates – Luiz Carlos de Matos Bonates On 10 November 1904, a series of popular protests took place on the streets of Rio…
Seven Crowns
By Rômulo Costa Mattos. The construction of the memory about Sete Coroas, the most famous “criminal” of the First Republic At the beginning of the…