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Freedom by a Thread: The History of Quilombos in Brazil

By Flavio Dos Santos Gomes (Editor), Joao Jose Reis (Editor)
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By Flavio Dos Santos Gomes (Editor), Joao Jose Reis (Editor)
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Freedom by a Thread: The History of Quilombos in Brazil brings together some of the best scholars in the world working on the history of quilombos (maroon societies) in Brazil from a variety of perspectives and approaches. Over 40 percent of the total volume of captive Africans arrived in Brazil during a 400-year period of legal and contraband transatlantic slaving. If slavery penetrated every aspect of Brazilian life, so did resistance--and co-existence with it--in the form of small to lar...

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Social SciencesHistoryAfrican StudiesAfrican HistoryGeneral African HistoryGeneral & Miscellaneous African History