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Diasporic and Indigenous Connections

A color print with a row of portraits of five White and Black men (abolitionists in Brazil), below a portrait of Princess Isabel (wearing a blue dress with a white frill) and four shirtless Black men dancing next to a pole as a Black woman carrying a baby and wearing a pink dress looks on.

  • Topics 2.16–2.17

AP African American Studies Guide

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Topic 2.16

Diasporic Connections: Slavery and Freedom in Brazil

Learning Objectives

Essentials

Learning Objectives

LO 2.16.A

Describe features of the enslavement of Africans in Brazil.

LO 2.16.A

Explain shifts in the numbers of enslaved Africans in Brazil and the United States during the nineteenth century.

Essentials

Terms

  • Middle Passage
  • Capoeira
  • Congada
  • Brazilian abolition movement

Required Sources

You will need to understand and be able to use these materials for the AP exam.

A man wearing a white shirt and pants begins a handstand as a band plays in the background and others look on.

Two Depictions of Capoeira

ca. 1835/2017

View how capoeira has persisted in the culture of Brazil over nearly two hundred years.

  • Primary Source

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Five portraits of men (abolitionists in Brazil), below a portrait of Princess Isabel (wearing a blue dress with a white frill) and four shirtless Black men dancing next to a pole as a Black woman wearing a pink dress looks on.

Slavery and Freedom in Brazil

by Keila Grinberg

Explore the pervasive impact of slavery in Brazil, and the long fight to abolish the system of enslavement.

  • Essay

Topic 2.17

African Americans in Indigenous Territory

Learning Objectives

Essentials

Learning Objectives

LO 2.17.A

Explain how the expansion of slavery in the United States South affected relations between Black and Indigenous people.

Essentials

Terms

  • Second Seminole War
  • Trail of Tears
  • Slave codes
  • Slave patrols

Places/Geography

  • Seminole Nation

Required Sources

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