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Quilombolos have a long and difficult history.  Their history begins with slavery in Brazil.  Brazil had many more slaves than the USA, an estimated three million.  A few of the slaves escaped and traveled from the more developed coastal areas deep into the interior.  In the Northeast of Brazil, a vast arid region known as the Sertao was very difficult for the Quilombolos and also very difficult for the hunters of escaped slaves.  The Quilombolos learned to survive and today maintain a large number of communities in the Northeast of Brazil.  Some of these communities are rural and some are neighborhoods of larger Brazilian cities.