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- noun Plural form of
quilombo .
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But many thousands escaped and rebelled, creating settlements they called quilombos in Brazil's untamed hinterland.
World Music Central 2008
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But many thousands escaped and rebelled, creating settlements they called quilombos in Brazil's untamed hinterland.
World Music Central 2008
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But many thousands escaped and rebelled, creating settlements they called quilombos in Brazil's untamed hinterland.
World Music Central 2008
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But many thousands escaped and rebelled, creating settlements they called quilombos in Brazil's untamed hinterland.
World Music Central 2008
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But many thousands escaped and rebelled, creating settlements they called quilombos in Brazil's untamed hinterland.
World Music Central 2008
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In Mamuna and hundreds of other places throughout Brazil, a more assertive black-rights movement is battling for recognition of quilombos, settlements founded by runaway or freed slaves.
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Ex-slaves took over the lands, leading to the emergence of most of the 100 or so quilombos, with roughly 16,000 inhabitants, that survive on the peninsula today.
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Anthropologists estimate that Brazil has around 3,500 quilombos.
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Grim Reminder The most high-profile struggle has pitted Mamuna and neighboring quilombos against the rocket base located on a peninsula in the Atlantic Ocean near the town of Alcântara.
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This year, amid pressure by agribusiness, Mr. da Silva backtracked, and issued rules that make it harder for quilombos to obtain titles.
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