“Africans who lived on the quilombos did not merely engage in a mindless escape to freedom, hiding from the cruelty and genocide of their oppressors. It went much deeper than that. In fact, a movement of resistance was formed in Africa in the fifteenth century, in the form of brotherhoods as early as the arrival of Europeans. By the next century this resistance had spread and the creation of quilombos in Brazil at that early date was linked to this same spiritual brotherhood started in Africa. It had passed on the archipelagoes (Cabo Verde, Sao Tome) and reached the Americas with the arrival of captured Africans for slave labor. In his book Mixture or Massacre, the African-Brazilian (scholar-activist), Abdias Do Nascimento, makes mention that African slave formed a secret society entitled Ogboni which held a powerful influence in the struggle against slavery. A profound, multi-form knowledge of this religious system is fundamental to understand the Kilombo strategy which was brought out in such communities as Angolares (Sao Tome), Palmares (Brazil) and others who fought using their African culture.” Dr. Edward Scobie “Global Afrikan Page 191
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