Brought from their home countries to work in inhumane, in the Colonial Brazil, the black people born in Africa were repressed and punished by the Feudal Lords. In that context, the late XVI century, capoeira was born as a physical and cultural way of resistance created by those blacks and their descendants in Brazil.
Disguised as a dance, capoeira was intended to preserve the cultural identity of these people and to help them against the violence of Feudal Lords and their Overseers. Moreover, capoeira was a way of mental and physical relief from the pain caused by the forced labor.
Capoeira kept itself out-of-law even after the Abolition of Slavery in Brazil (1888), becoming legalized only by the Constitution of 1930 but, unfortunately, even now a days we can easily find people who discriminate this genuine Brazilian art.
“Capoeira was born from an oppressed people’s struggling for freedom. Social inclusion is in its essence since this art was created by excluded social groups. Along its history, capoeira was always associated to those who fought for their rights, identity and cultural values”. (Gladson de Oliveira / Venâncio Heine)
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