Content: Afro-Brazil: A Visual History is a archive focused on the experiences, expressions, and narratives of Africans, Afro-descendants, and Afro-Brazilians throughout the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. The archive primarily displays digitized prints, paintings, and other forms of visual culture in the public domain. The archive is continually expanding.
Purpose: This archive aims to center Africans in Brazil and their descendants within the history of the nation.
By subject:
Expression
Afro-Brazilian women’s sartorial expression in eighteenth-century Rio de Janeiro
Capoeira Scene, Brazil, 1820 – 1824.
Customs, Rituals, Community
Occupation
Le Chirugien Negre (the black surgeon), 1834 – 1839
Women Working at a Market, Rio de Janeiro, 1819 – 1820
Women
Afro-Brazilian women’s sartorial expression in eighteenth-century Rio de Janeiro
