Nilo Peçanha
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Nilo Procópio Peçanha was a Brazilian politician who served as the seventh president of Brazil. He was governor of Rio de Janeiro, then elected the fifth vice president of Brazil in 1906. He assumed t
Official portrait, 1909
Nilo Pecanha in an amateur photo
Postage stamp of Nilo Pecanha
Last official photo of Nilo Pecanha
Afro-Brazilians
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Afro-Brazilians, also known as Black Brazilians, are Brazilians of total or predominantly Sub-Saharan African ancestry. Most multiracial Brazilians also have varying ranges of African ancestry. Brazil
Nilo Peçanha
…President Afonso Pena and served until 1910. Despite controversies involving his racial identity, Peçanha is frequently considered as Brazil's first Afro-Brazilian president. Nilo Peçanha was born to Sebastião de Sousa Peçanha, a baker, and Joaquina Anália de Sá Freire, the descendant of a wealthy and noble family…
Actress Camila Pitanga self-identifies as black, but only 27% of Brazilians consider her as such and 36% view her as parda, according to a Datafolha survey.
Former football player Romário is seen as pardo by 51% of Brazilians and as Black by 31%, according to a Datafolha survey.
Slave from Brazil photographed by Augusto Stahl (c. 1865)
Berimbau player, by Jean-Baptiste Debret, 1826