Historical Organization
police and courts
The Penal Code promulgated by Decree 847 placed capoeira in a chapter on “vagrants and capoeiras” and prescribed imprisonment for practicing it in public. Capoeira had developed through African...
The republican Penal Code of 1890 made practices described by the state as spiritism, magic, or unauthorized healing punishable under provisions on public order and health. It did not name Candomblé...
