Mocambo (settlement)
When one was found the soldiers would execute all the adults and enslave any surviving children (born in the Mocambos), declaring them property of the leaders of the exterminating expeditions.[2][3][4] Runaway communities flourished in almost all areas of Bahia, whose geography aided escape, and the result was a great number of fugitives and mocambos.The region of Bahia in which appeared a great quantity of mocambos was the southern towns of Cairù, Camamù and Ilhéus.[5] Maroon Societies is a systematic study of the communities formed by escaped slaves in the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States.The volume includes eyewitness accounts written by escaped slaves and their pursuers, as well as modern historical and anthropological studies of the maroon experience.