After Palmares: Diaspora, Inheritance, and the Afterlives of Zumbi (Radical Perspectives) - Hardcover

Hertzman, Marc A

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1478026316 ISBN 13: 9781478026310

Publisher: Duke University Press Books, 2024

Synopsis

In After Palmares, Marc A. Hertzman tells the rise, fall, and afterlives of Palmares, one of history’s largest and longest-lasting maroon societies. Forged during the seventeenth century by formerly enslaved Africans in what would become northeast Brazil, Palmares stood for a century, withstanding sustained attacks from two European powers. In 1695, colonial forces assassinated its most famous leader, Zumbi. Hertzman examines the remarkable ways that Palmares and its inhabitants lived on after Zumbi’s death, creating vivid portraits of those whose lives and voices scholars have often assumed are inaccessible. With an innovative approach to African languages, and paying close attention to place as well as African and diasporic spiritual beliefs, Hertzman reshapes our understanding of Palmares and Zumbi and advances a new framework for studying fugitive slave communities and marronage in the African diaspora.

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About the Author

Marc A. Hertzman is Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and author of Making Samba: A New History of Race and Music in Brazil, also published by Duke University Press.

Edition details

• Publisher: Duke University Press Books
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1478026316
• ISBN 13: 9781478026310
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 480