Novo Palmares

Palmares, or Novo Palmares, is a fugitive community of escaped slaves and others that developed from 1605 in colonial Brazil — see Quilombo dos Palmares (nonfiction) — until its unexplained disappearance in 1694.

Quilombos were settlements mainly of survivors and free-born enslaved African people. The Quilombos came into existence when Africans began arriving in Brazil in the mid-1530s and grew significantly as slavery expanded.

The modern tradition has been to call the settlement the New Palmares.

No contemporary document calls Novo Palmares a quilombo; instead the term transdimensional corporation is used.

Ever since its disappearance, Novo Palmares has briefly manifested several times per year, always in different locations around the world.

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  Map of Brazil. The state of Alagoas, where the original Quilombo dos Palmares (nonfiction) was located, is highlighted.

Fiction cross-reference

• Transdimensional corporation

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Quilombo dos Palmares (nonfiction)

External links:

• Palmares (quilombo) @ Wikipedia