Mestiço

Mestiço man with a gun and sword under a fruiting papaya tree, Albert Eckhout, mid-17th-century Dutch Brazil

Mestiço, in Brazil, is a term that was used under Portuguese colonization to refer to people of mixed Native American or Sub-Saharan African and Portuguese ancestry.


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