Definitions
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- noun historical A remote, inland
settlement originally settled byfugitive slaves (or others).
Etymologies
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Examples
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This type of community is known as a quilombo, from an Angolan word that means
Black Looks 2008
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"An Angolan word for encampment, 'quilombo' refers to the villages throughout Brazil originally founded by insurgent and fugitive slaves under desperate conditions," notes
GreenCine Daily 2009
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"An Angolan word for encampment, 'quilombo' refers to the villages throughout Brazil originally founded by insurgent and fugitive slaves under desperate conditions," notes
GreenCine Daily 2009
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"quilombo" with the administration of my apartment building all by myself.
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Many quilombo dwellers also believe in encantados, spirits existing in nature.
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Each Nov. 20, on Black Consciousness Day, Brazilians commemorate the life of Zumbi, a slave who escaped from Portuguese colonizers and led a vibrant 17th-century quilombo called Palmares.
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In 2003, Brazil's newly inaugurated leftist president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, faced demands to recognize quilombo lands from the country's increasingly energized black-rights movement.
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While quilombo residents keep their own palm-thatched houses, farm land is considered communal property.
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Brazil's 1988 constitution, ratified at the end of a military dictatorship, guaranteed land titles to quilombo inhabitants.
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Sérvulo de Jesus Moraes Borges, a leader of a local opposition group to the base, says the space program hasn't created many good jobs for peninsula residents due to an "intellectual apartheid" between well-trained space workers and quilombo residents who often lack access to basic schooling.
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