After Palmares: Diaspora, Inheritance, and the Afterlives of Zumbi [Hardcover]

InAfter 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.USMarc A. Hertzman tells the rise, fall, and afterlives of Palmares, one of history’s largest and longest-lasting maroon societies which existed during the seventeenth century in what would become northeast Brazil.Marc A. Hertzman is Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and author ofMaking Samba: A New History of Race and Music in Brazil, also published by Duke University Press.“After Palmaresis a beautifully written and stunning work of historical scholarship. With its publication, Marc A. Hertzman will widely be recognized as one of the most important and original scholars working on Brazil and the African diaspora.”Barbara Weinstein, author of,The Color of Modernity: São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil

“In a genius move, Marc A. Hertzman takes the notion of a maroon settlement and asks what changes when we think about such places as starting points rather than endpoints in histories of the enslaved. This conceptuallÓ9