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Black children have reinforcement class at home at Agrovila Maruda, a Quilombo in Alcantara, Maranhao State, Northeastern Brazil - 12-years old boy couting with the help of the fingers - a quilombo is a Brazilian hinterland settlement founded by people of African origin. Most of the inhabitants of quilombos were escaped former slaves and, in some cases, a minority of marginalised non-slave Brazilians that faced oppression during colonization.