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The mocambos (from mocambo, literally Huts) were village-sized communities mainly of runaway slaves in colonial Brazil, during 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.
Documentation about refugee slave communities typically uses the term mocambo for settlements, which is an Ambundu word meaning "war camp". A mocambo is typically much smaller than a quilombo. "Quilombo" was not used until the 1670s, primarily in the more southerly parts of Brazil. [2]
El Mocambo 1977 received a score of 86 out of 100 based on nine critics' reviews at review aggregator Metacritic, indicating "universal acclaim". [3] Doug Collette of All About Jazz summarized the album as "recordings worth waiting for all these forty-five years since they happened" and felt that it is "quite conceivable that, in fairly short order, this title will become the go-to choice for ...
The four-LP vinyl version of “El Mocambo” will come in two variants, black and a “neon” version with the discs in different hues. The full rundown of tracks: 1. Honky Tonk Women (Live at ...
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Palmares, or Quilombo dos Palmares, was a quilombo, a community of escaped slaves and others, in colonial Brazil that developed from 1605 until its suppression in 1694. It was located in the captaincy of Pernambuco, in what is today the Brazilian state of Alagoas.
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Ganga is said to have been the son of princess Aqualtune, daughter of an unknown king of Kongo.She led a battalion at the Battle of Mbwila.. The Portuguese won the battle, eventually killing 5,000 men and capturing the king, his two sons, his two nephews, four governors, various court officials, 95 title holders and 400 other nobles, who were put on ships and sold as slaves in the Americas.