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'''Palmares''', or '''Novo Palmares''', is a fugitive community of escaped slaves and others that developed from 1605 in colonial Brazil until its unexplained disappearance in 1694. | |||
The modern tradition has been to call the settlement the ''New Palmares''. Quilombos were settlements mainly of survivors and free-born enslaved African people. The Quilombos came into existence when Africans began arriving in Brazil in the mid-1530s and grew significantly as slavery expanded. | The modern tradition has been to call the settlement the ''New Palmares''. Quilombos were settlements mainly of survivors and free-born enslaved African people. The Quilombos came into existence when Africans began arriving in Brazil in the mid-1530s and grew significantly as slavery expanded. | ||
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File:Brazil State Alagoas.svg|link=Quilombo dos Palmares (nonfiction)|Map of Brazil. The state of Alagoas, where the original [[Quilombo dos Palmares (nonfiction)]] was located, is highlighted. | |||
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Revision as of 19:43, 22 August 2016
Palmares, or Novo Palmares, is a fugitive community of escaped slaves and others that developed from 1605 in colonial Brazil until its unexplained disappearance in 1694.
The modern tradition has been to call the settlement the New Palmares. Quilombos were settlements mainly of survivors and free-born enslaved African people. The Quilombos came into existence when Africans began arriving in Brazil in the mid-1530s and grew significantly as slavery expanded.
No contemporary document calls Novo Palmares a quilombo; instead the term transdimensional corporation is used.
In the News
Map of Brazil. The state of Alagoas, where the original Quilombo dos Palmares (nonfiction) was located, is highlighted.
Fiction cross-reference
Nonfiction cross-reference
External links:
- Palmares (quilombo) @ Wikipedia