found: Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition, accessed July 06, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Cândido, João; political activist, revolutionary; born 1880 in Encruzilhada, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; sent to Great Britain as part of the crew for the new battleship Minas Gerais (1908); with his shipmates brought the Minas Gerais back to Rio de Janeiro (1910); began to plot an uprising aimed at obtaining better conditions of service for Brazilian sailors; led over a thousand sailors in the capture of six warships in the Rio harbor; acclaimed as "the Black Admiral"; barred from ever again serving in the navy or the merchant marine (1912); the city council of Rio de Janeiro declared November 22 to be Black Admiral Day (1988); in 1985 one of the city's Samba Schools based its Carnival performance on the Samba, "O Mestre Sala dos Mares" (The MC of the Seas), honoring his life; died 1969 in Rio de Janeiro)
