Abstract
In bringing African slaves to the Brazilian colony, the Portuguese transported not only a workforce but also individuals with cultural mores all their own. An area of Afro-Brazilian slave research that has attracted very little attention is that of dress, specifically that of women.¹ This research explores dress of enslaved African women in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in the mid nineteenth century, defining the attributes of that dress, identifying elements of cultural continuation and acculturation through identification of European, African and cross-cultural dress aspects, and forming a basis from which broader-based regional comparisons of slave dress may be conducted. The forced emigration of African women to Brazil resulted in a unique amalgamation of dress that shows the literal crossing of borders of people, culture, and aesthetics.
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