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A comprehensive history of the 17th century maroon nation, Brazil's Quilombo dos Palmares, with chapters relating Palmares to modern Brazil.

A comprehensive history of the Quilombo dos Palmares, a nation of fugitive slaves that thrived in Brazil throughout the 17th century. The last two chapters disc

An independent kingdom of runaway slaves founded in the late 16th century, Angola Janga was a beacon of freedom in a land plagued with oppression. In stark blac

The Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America is an anthology of stories of largely ordinary individuals struggling to forge a life during the unstable colonial

Freedom by a Thread: The History of Quilombos in Brazil brings together some of the best scholars in the world working on the history of quilombos (maroon socie