After Palmares: Diaspora, Inheritance, and the Afterlives of Zumbi
Mar 11, 2025 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Coble Hall Room 306
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- Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies
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Join us for an engaging talk with Marc Hertzman, as he delves into his latest book, After Palmares.
In After Palmares, Marc A. Hertzman explores the rise, fall, and afterlives of Palmares, one of history's largest and longest-lasting maroon societies in 17th-century Brazil. Forged during the seventeenth century by formerly enslaved Africans in what would become northeast Brazil, despite enduring attacks from European powers, Palmares thrived for a century until the assassination of its leader, Zumbi, in 1695.
Hertzman examines how Palmares and its people persisted beyond Zumbi's death, using African languages, geography, and spiritual beliefs to offer a new perspective on fugitive slave communities and marronage in the African diaspora