AFRO-BRAZILIAN HISTORY

The history of Afro-Brazilian people spans over five centuries

of racial interaction between Africans imported, involved or
descended from the effects of the Atlantic slave trade. The
Africans brought to Brazil belonged to two major groups: the
West African and the Bantu people.
The West African people were sent in large scale to Bahia. They mostly belong to the GaAdangbe, Yoruba, Igbo, Fon, Ashanti, Ewe, Mandinka, and other West African groups native to
Guinea, Ghana, Benin, Guinea-Bissau and Nigeria. The Bantus were brought from Angola,
Congo region and Mozambique and sent in large scale to Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, and the
Northeastern Brazil.
The blacks brought to Brazil were from different ethnicities and from different African regions.
Gilberto Freyre noted the major differences between these groups. Some Sudanese peoples,
such as Hausa, Fula and others were Islamic, spoke Arabic and many of them could read and
write in this language. Freyre noted that many slaves were better educated than their masters,
because many Muslim slaves were literate in Arabic, while many Portuguese Brazilian masters
could not even read or write in Portuguese. These slaves of greater Arab and Berber influence
were largely sent to Bahia. The Muslim has influenced the typical dress of the women from
Bahia since then, as the use of the Arabic turban on the head.
Despite the large influx of Islamic slaves, most of the slaves in Brazil were brought from the
Bantu regions of the Atlantic coast of Africa where today Congo and Angola are located, and
also from Mozambique. In general, these people lived in tribes. The people from Congo
developed agriculture, raised livestock, domesticated animals such as goat, pig, chicken and
dog and produced sculptures in wood. Some groups from Angola were nomadic and did not
know agriculture.

Adapted from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Brazilian_history

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