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Capoeira Brazilian culture is a mixture of the influences, religions, and traditions of the three major ethnic groups that make up their society. In the sixteenth century, Brazil became a major Portuguese colony. Throughout the seventeenth century the Portuguese presence grew stronger. Native females served the Portuguese as sexual partners, and these relationships gave rise to a sizeable number of mamelucos or caboclos, mixed-blood offspring with European fathers and indigenous mothers (Schneider 36). The native people could easily escape enslavement from the Portuguese, because of their ability to survive in Brazil's environment (Schneider 36). This led to importation of African slaves, already common in Portugal, totaling 250,000 by 1650 and exceeding 600,000 by the end of the century. Thus, the three major components of the future Brazilian society, native, Caucasian, and African, were present and mixing through widespread miscegenation. The religions brought to Brazil by the Portuguese and African slaves had the...

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