União dos Palmares

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The city of União dos Palmares, in Alagoas state, Brazil, has a historic importance to African-Brazilian people once more than 300 years ago they brought up one of the most important African slavers center of resistance against slavery in its lands when slavers founded an independent republic named Quilombo dos Palmares. Picture below shows a monument made in honor of Zumbi dos Palmares, the leader and hero of Quilombo movement.

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