Unit 3
Grades 9-10
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Quilombo dos Palmares: An African Kingdom in Brazil
Beginning around 1605 in the captaincy of Pernambuco, in what is now the Brazilian state of Alagoas, escaped enslaved Africans began forming settlements in a hilly, forested region abundant with palm trees, giving the settlements their collective name: Palmares. Unlike most…
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