In Brazil’s Amazon, Quilombolas fight the erasure of their African heritage

Mongabay
May 17, 2022, 11:05 am210 pts
In 1835, a rebellion broke out in the Lower Amazon region, in what was then the state of Grão-Pará, Brazil. The vast majority of the population was composed of Afro-Brazilians, caboclos (of mixed Indigenous and white ancestry), and Indigenous people. Relied on as a source of slave or cheap labor, they lived…

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