Their leader, Henry Berry Lowry, gave an interview while imprisoned in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1889, in which he described his ancestry as a mix of Portuguese and African instead of Indian.

Historian Mario De Valdes y Cocom argues that Charlotte was directly descended from a Black branch of the Portuguese ... also had Black ancestry. And, thus, Charlotte had African blood from ...

“It is disrespect to our ancestry ... its members wearing costumes honoring the African vocabulary that has long been integrated into Brazilian Portuguese. This is no minor contribution ...

Duarte Pachece Pereira, Portuguese ... and Spanish ancestry, Prince Henry gained his reputation by sponsoring many voyages of discovery along the western coast of Africa. Prince Henry had several ...