Quilombos – then and now

• Quilombos – free societies created by runaway slaves

• Important and constant part of Black struggle for freedom

• African culture was conserved in quilombos

• ~5000 original quilombos still exist, conserve much ancestral African culture

• Quilombos are a strong symbol of Afro-Brazilian independence and resistence (Zumbi, Palmares etc.), also today

• Watch the film Quilombo (1984)!