Capoeira: The History of an Afro-Brazilian Martial Art

Figure 4.1

Townships and parishes in the Recôncavo in th

e mid-nineteenth century.

From Bert Barrickman,

A Bahian Counterpoint: Sugar,

Tobacco and

Slavery in the Recôncavo

. Copyright 1999 by the Board of Trustees of the Lela

nd Stanford Jr. University. With the permission of

the Stanford University Press, http://www.sup.org.

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