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“Die, yes; surrender, no.” In November 1838, an estimated 200–400 African and Brazilian-born people left the coffee estates...

Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto (1881–1922) was a distinguished Brazilian novelist, journalist, and short-story writer renowned for his...

Palmares, or Quilombo dos Palmares, was Brazil’s largest and most enduring freedom polity and one of the most significant communities of African resistance in the Americas. Situated in the forested highlands...

In the early hours of January 25, 1835, hundreds of African men entered the streets of Salvador, the...

“The legend of the Palmares quilombo and its greatest leader, Zumbi, are central to the history and ongoing...