Novo Palmares
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Map of Brazil. The state of Alagoas, where the original Quilombo dos Palmares (nonfiction) was located, is highlighted.
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.
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External links:
- Palmares (quilombo) @ Wikipedia