Women's soccer in a Brazilian quilombo - players wear the Brazilian national soccer team shirt - girl kicks the ball into the forest. 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. Rio Grande Quilombo, Alcantara, Maranhao State, Northeastern Brazil.