Capoeira is a Brazilian martial arts-dance form whose origins are obscure: it may have originated in Africa or in the quarters of the enslaved on Brazilian plantations.
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Themes
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Plantation Conditions
Understand the harshness of daily life on the plantations, the oppression used to exert control, and the profits…
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Legacies
Understand how the 1807 Abolition Act ended the British involvement in the slave trade but not slavery, how British women pushed for full…