Recife, BRAZIL - Crusade Against Mocambo - School of Culinary Arts - 1943 For Sale

Recife, BRAZIL - Crusade Against Mocambo - School of Culinary Arts - 1943: Recife is the fourth-largest urban area in Brazil with 4,054,866 inhabitants, the largest urban area of the North/Northeast Regions, and the capital and largest city of the state of Pernambuco in the northeast corner of South America. The population of the city proper was 1,653,461 in 2020. The mocambos (from mocambo, literally Huts) were village-sized communities mainly of runaway slaves in colonial Brazil, during Portuguese rule. A mocambo differed from a quilombo in size, A quilombo, like the Quilombo dos Palmares, might embrace many distinct mocambos. The terms were not always used consistently, however. This Linen Era postcard, dated 1943, is in good condition.