Black boys play soccer in a Brazilian quilombo - stones mark the goalposts positions. Woman carries a bucket of water on head in background. 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. Sao Raimundo Quilombo in Alcântara, Maranhão, Northeast Brazil.