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==History== |
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| ⚫ | The most common form of slave resistance in colonial Brasil was flight, and a characteristic problem of the Brazilian slave regime was the continual and widespread existence of fugitive communities called mocambos, ladeiras, magotes, or quilombos. The three major areas of colonial Brazil where the fugitive communities stayed were: the plantation zone of Bahia, the mining district of [[Minas Gerais]], and the inaccessible frontier of [[Alagoas]], site of Palmares, the largest fugitive community.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=YTnY5h0NE3sC&pg=PA109&dq=Mocambos&hl=en&ei=83aoS_myDNT-_Aac2rD3Aw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Mocambos&f=false |title=Stuart B. Schwartz''Slaves, peasants, and rebels: reconsidering Brazilian slavery' |publisher= University of Illinois Press, 1996|date= |accessdate=2010-02-21}}</ref> |
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Slave resistance in Colonial Brazil |
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Colonial Brazil was continually threatened by various forms of resistance of the fundamental institution of slavery. |
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| ⚫ | The most common form of slave resistance in colonial Brasil was flight, and a characteristic problem of the Brazilian slave regime was the continual and widespread existence of fugitive communities called mocambos, ladeiras, magotes, or quilombos. The three major areas of colonial Brazil where the fugitive communities stayed were: the plantation zone of Bahia, the mining district of Minas Gerais, and the inaccessible frontier of Alagoas, site of Palmares, the largest fugitive community.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=YTnY5h0NE3sC&pg=PA109&dq=Mocambos&hl=en&ei=83aoS_myDNT-_Aac2rD3Aw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Mocambos&f=false |title=Stuart B. Schwartz''Slaves, peasants, and rebels: reconsidering Brazilian slavery' |publisher= University of Illinois Press, 1996|date= |accessdate=2010-02-21}}</ref> |
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==Bahia:A plantation world== |
==Bahia:A plantation world== |
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Runaway communities flourished in almost all areas of Bahia, whose geography aided escape, and the result was a great number of fugitives and mocambos. |
Runaway communities flourished in almost all areas of Bahia, whose geography aided escape, and the result was a great number of fugitives and mocambos. |
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Revision as of 17:56, 26 March 2010
The mocambos (from mocambo, literally Huts) were village-sized communities mainly of runaway slaves in colonial Brazil, during the Portuguese rule.
A mocambo differed from a quilombo in size - a quilombo, like the Quilombo dos Palmares, might embrace many distinct mocambos. The terms were not always used consistently, however.
History
The most common form of slave resistance in colonial Brasil was flight, and a characteristic problem of the Brazilian slave regime was the continual and widespread existence of fugitive communities called mocambos, ladeiras, magotes, or quilombos. The three major areas of colonial Brazil where the fugitive communities stayed were: the plantation zone of Bahia, the mining district of Minas Gerais, and the inaccessible frontier of Alagoas, site of Palmares, the largest fugitive community.[1]
Bahia:A plantation world
Runaway communities flourished in almost all areas of Bahia, whose geography aided escape, and the result was a great number of fugitives and mocambos.
References
- ^ "Stuart B. Schwartz''Slaves, peasants, and rebels: reconsidering Brazilian slavery'". University of Illinois Press, 1996. Retrieved 2010-02-21.
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