Brazilian ’quilombo’ community entitled with 220,000 hectares of rainforest
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On March 3, one community in Brazil descended from African slaves celebrated a victory they’ve waited generations for: the government entitled them with 220,000 hectares of Amazonian rainforest.
The land is designated for the Cachoeira Porteira quilombo community of 500 people in Brazil’s Pará state. The newly-entitled landowners are descendants of the 4.5 million slaves who were brought to Brazil between 1600 and 1850. Many slaves escaped and formed rural Afro-Brazilian communities known as quilombos.