Quilombo were villages that sheltered slaves who fled from farms and family homes, and is a term of Angolan origin. Slaves went to the quilombos to avoid being found, because where they lived they were always exploited and suffered ill treatment.
Quilombos were villages that were hidden in the woods, in preferably inaccessible places, like the top of mountains and caves, and that was where slaves would gather and manage to live a life. free. The small villages were also called mocambos, and both they and the quilombos lasted the entire period of slavery in Brazil.
The term quilombo, originally was used only to refer to a place used by nomadic populations, or small encampments of merchants, and with the beginning of slavery, slaves adopted the term for the place they fled, and it was in Brazil that the term gained the meaning that currently have.
One of the most famous quilombos was Quilombo dos Palmares, which was located in the then captaincy of Pernambuco, currently the Brazilian state of Alagoas. This quilombo received this name because a slave named Zumbi was the great leader of the village.
