Quilombo dos Palmares: Brazil's Lost Nation of Fugitive Slaves by Glenn Alan Cheney

Quilombo dos Palmares: Brazil's Lost Nation of Fugitive Slaves

Glenn Alan Cheney

324 pages paperback 2014

3 editions

nonfiction history reflective medium-paced
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The Quilombo dos Palmares was a nation of fugitive slaves that thrive through the entire 17th century. With a population estimated at 20,000 or more, it had a quasi-parliamentary government, egalitarian society, and a massive mountaintop citadel f...

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