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Most innovative is his discussion of Palmares itself, in which--primarily on the basis of linguistic evidence--Schwartz argues that "there is enough evidence to suggest that the introduction of the term quilombo into Brazil in the late seventeenth century was not accidental and that it represented more than simply a linguistic borrowing. |
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