Brazil’s Black History: Quilombo Communities Explained
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Like… I knew this intellectually, but seeing it with my own eyes was still eye-opening. I had the chance to experience some of Brazil’s Black history with the São Paulo Tourism Board as one of the first creators to take part in their new Afro Tourism guide, designed to highlight the deep Black culture of the region.
One of our stops was a quilombo, a community formed by formerly enslaved Africans who escaped and built lives outside of the colonial system. These were autonomous spaces of resistance where African ways of life were preserved despite repeated attempts to erase them.
Quilombo Cafundó is home to an Angolan-descended community spread across hundreds of acres of land, and I got the chance to learn how the people of this quilombo not only survived, but thrived, and how they continue to live today.
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