Zumbi dos Palmares Today is holiday in my country, Brazil. We celebrate a singular date to flourish awareness in popular culture, Black Consciousness, or as I prefer: Day of Negro's Awareness. And, also, to honor a main character of history called Zumbi dos Palmares who is the symbol of the black resistance against slavery, and he was the last head of Quilombo dos Palmares. Quilombo means a place to where slaves used to hide after they have run away of their owners. It was a place very difficult to access considering it was in the tropical brushwood. Brazil is the last country to abolish the slavery and it happened in 1888, but Zumbi died in 1695 after has fought to protect his brothers and his ideals. This holiday was implemented as national in 2011 specially to the Brazilian blacks who honor Zumbi as the hero who fought for freedom and as a symbol of freedom.