Bahia Brazilians

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Bahia is a state in Brazil, largely inhabited by people of mixed African and European origin, together with a minority of descendants of unmixed African or European ancestors. Throughout the end of the sixteenth century until abolition, Portuguese settlers brought in enslaved Africans mainly for labor use in sugarcane plantations. Following the abolishment of slavery in the late 1880s, the government of Brazil enacted a law that led to the growth of smallholder farmers cultivating a variety of crops including commercially valued tobacco and cocoa. The post-slavery period also fostered the revitalization of elements of traditional West African religion and expressive arts that survived the brutal impacts of the transatlantic journey of enslaved persons.

Identifier

Region

• South America

Subregion

• Eastern South America

Subsistence Type

• intensive agriculturalists

Samples

• C1
• PSF

Countries

• Brazil