Capoeira Resistencia may have started here… In Recife, a group of 40 slaves rebelled against their master, killed the white workers and burned down the plantation house. The now freed slaves headed into the mountains.  They eventually reached Palmares, where an an African community that lasted almost a century was born.

The very first forms of Capoeira came from Palmares.

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