Comunidade Arnesto Penna Carneiro
Coordinates: 29°44′38.01″S 53°32′06.70″W / 29.7438917°S 53.5351944°W Comunidade Arnesto Penna Carneiro (also, Recanto dos Evangélicos, or yet, Quilombo da Palma) is a Brazilian quilombo localized in the Palma neighbourhood, district of Palma, Santa Maria City, Rio Grande do Sul State.
The quilombo is 29 kilometer far from Downtown Santa Maria.
Ex-slave Ernesto Carneiro Penna's family inherited their lands due to the thankfulness that their Misters had to them.
Thus, Comunidade Quilombola Arnesto Penna Carneiro is designated as a troupe of families that are related to one another, and live at an area received from their forefathers, situated in Palma, Santa Maria. Therefore, the history of Comunidade Arnesto Penna Carneiro begins with The Pennas in the beginning of the 19th century.
Manoel Fernandes Penna had arrived to Santa Maria in 1808, where he received lands from Monarchs of Portugal, in the region currently situated in the quilombo. Manoel Fernandes Penna's grandson, whose name is also Manoel Fernandes Penna, inherited his lands, and kept up to 1884, the same model of work used by his ancestors, utilizing a slavery workforce.
The farm was the birthplace of slave Balbina's sons: Leandro, Luiza, Casemiro, Ernesto and Hermes as is evident in Book of baptism – Slaves (1871–1887) and in Book of baptism #16 (1886–1889), that after would rend the family's inherits. When Manoel Fernandes Pena died, his assets rested to his wife, whom he marries in sharing of goods. She, that hadn't sons, left in her testament, drawn up in the purveyory of City of Santa Maria da Boca do Monte, in 22 September 1905, a part of her goods to ex-slave Balbina's descendants, like is in the testament:
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