Kalunga

The Kalunga community is the biggest quilombo of Brazil established by Afro-Brazilian residents who escaped from slavery at the end of the eighteenth century. During almost 200 years this group of slaves descendants were hidden in the mountains of Goias, not knowing about the abolition of slavery that happened a few years after their settlement. They lived in isolation from external society until the 1960s when researchers found them. If the slavery is part of the past, their aftermath is still writing its history of racism in Brazil. The Kalunga group is a vivid memory of pain and violence but also represent resistance, pursuit for freedom and a profound integration with nature.