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Unit 7
Grades 9-10
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Capoeira: The Martial Art Disguised as Dance

Among enslaved Africans in Brazil, particularly those from Bantu-speaking Central Africa (present-day Angola and the Congo, the region that, as you learned in Unit 2, supplied the majority of enslaved people brought to Brazil), a distinctive form of combat training developed…

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