We thought that the descendants of the slaves were poor. At the end of the century. XIX, many freed slaves returned to Africa and to this day are called Brazilian communities . Many became enriched and became African elites, especially in the city of Lagos. Below are pictures taken in Brazil, Nigeria and Benin, of this interesting story unknown to many - former slaves and descendants who have become wealthy merchants, doctors, lawyers, politicians, owners of many properties.
The richest men in the Brazilian community, that is, ex-slaves from Brazil who returned to Africa, sent their children to study in Europe or Bahia. The first doctors and lawyers from Nigeria, such as Plácido and Honório Assumpção, were formed. The careers of British colonial government officials and foreign firms attracted much of the so-called "Brazilian descendants." The above brothers adopted the name Yoruba Alakija. Part of the family returned to Bahia at the beginning of the sec. XX. (Family Document photographed by Pierre Verger) .
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Upper photo, the Brazilian committee of the abolition festivities, bringing together the most representative members of the Brazilian elite in Lagos.
Lower photo, actors in the play "The Mysterious Ring," drama in five acts, presented on October 5, 1888, as part of the Lagosian festivities for the Abolition of Slavery. Brazilians in Lagos were great aficionados of classical theater and lyrical music ( Société des Missions Africaines, Rome).
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Some of these Brazilians were Males, Brazilian Muslims who participated in the Muslim jihad of 1835. Others were crioulos free people of color who often were city police, slave hunters, and regular army. Some crioulos were successful because they bought into the system and helped oppress the other Blacks.
Due to wealth of some curiolos they often went back and forth between Nigeria and Brazil for many years.
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Then there were the Negro Confederados who during the US Civil war rejected freedom from their masters and instead choose to flee from the US with their mostly Jewish masters to Brazil.
When some southern plantation owners realized that the confederates were losing the war and would not recover, they quickly liquidated all the wealth obtained by the southern slave system and using the same ships used in the transatlantic slave trade, packed up their belongings and sailed off to Brazil to start anew.
Although their slaves were technically free. Many choose to stay with their masters and accompanied them in fleeing to Brazil where they set up an southern American confederate style culture in Brazil. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederados
Not surprisingly, these Negroes in Brazil imitated their albino masters and were soon enslaving and abusing the native Brazilians.
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