Lhe quilombos of Brazil spread throughout the territory during the three and a half centuries that slavery lasted there. The history of the quilombos is that which emerges from the texts devoted to them, the first sources, emanating from those who fought them, the governors, the soldiers, the settlers. The Portuguese only perceived them as savage enemies, only through war, and historians have struggled to do otherwise.
The Palmares are considered the most important and enduring set of quilombos. Practically nothing is known about the life of their inhabitants, their daily life, their appearance. Yet their society lasted nearly a century. An organized society that hunted, fished, cultivated, and transmitted its myths, its knowledge and its values. Kings and chiefs have succeeded each other in the Palmares, but the memory of only two has come down to us: Ganga-Zumba and Zumbi, the only ones to have federated the quilombos to create a kingdom.
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Quilombo dos Palmares: Brazil's Lost Nation of Fugitive Slaves
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Release Date | 2014-07-15T00:00:01Z |
Language | English |
Number Of Pages | 324 |
Publication Date | 2014-07-15T00:00:01Z |