Talk:Zumbi
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I think it is important to mention tha people in Brazil tend to repudiate the term "afro-brazilian", which tends to be implied by foreigners to the Brazilians of Black origins. --Pinnecco 22:05, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
I don't understand what is meant by "the Maroons were no match for the Portugese military." The statement before, that they managed to fight for 67 years, directly contradicts this.Dkceaser 00:20, 23 January 2007 (UTC)dkceaser
[edit] Quilombo dos Palmares
Surely Quilombo dos Palmares deserves an article of its own; currently it redirects here. Daniel Brown, "Songs of Slavery", Index on Censorship, Volume 36, Number 1, 2007, p. 138–140, on p. 139 refers to the kingdom as "Los Palmeros"; I've made that a redirect to Quilombo dos Palmares, but it seems wrong to make it a redirect to one man. Brown says it was "about one-third the size of Portugal", survived through the entire 17th century, and had a population of "up to 20,000 people," and that its social and agricultural patterns reflected those of Africa; however, Brown's article (which was mainly about music) isn't much of a reference for size or population, especially if stacked up against Braudel. - Jmabel | Talk 21:06, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

