Quilombo dos Palmares
Federation of villages of escaped enslaved Africans and others in the Serra da Barriga, Pernambuco, which resisted colonial armies for most of the seventeenth century. Today a national symbol of Black resistance.
Dated events and their evidence
- 1605 CE mainstream
Palmares emerges as a community of escaped slaves source - 1694 CE mainstream
colonial forces storm the capital, Macaco source
Where
9.1700° S, 36.0800° W
Sources
- https://revistas.usp.br/africa/article/download/75051/78608/101473
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmares_(quilombo)
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