Mocamboとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

mocambo (複数形 mocambos)

1. (now historical) A community made up of former slaves in colonial Brazil.
   • 1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, Helen R. Lane, transl., The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 517:

     The captured animals have been taken, once night fell, to pens behind the Mocambo.

   • 1996, Stuart B Schwartz, Slaves, Peasants, and Rebels: Reconsidering Brazilian Slavery, page 109:

     The mocambo represented an expression of social protest in a slave society.

   • 2021, Ronald H Chilcote, Protest and Resistance in Angola and Brazil: Comparative Studies, page 251:

     Such meetings were held in Macaco, the largest mocambo, which housed five thousand blacks and the supreme chieftain.