a digital archive of Afro-Brazilian history & visual culture.

Rita of Rio de Janeiro, 1820 – 1824

“The Black Surgeon”

Women Working at a Market, Rio de Janeiro, 1819 – 1820

A Wedding (1817 – 1831)

Capoeira (1820 – 1824)

Heading to A Baptism

An Unimpressed Woman from Carlos Julião’s eighteenth-century manuscript

Afro-Brazilian women’s sartorial expression in eighteenth-century Rio de Janeiro