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Maroons played an important role in the histories of Brazil, Suriname, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Cuba, and Jamaica. There is much variety among maroon cultural groups because of differences in history, geography, African nationality, and the culture of indigenous people throughout the Western Hemisphere .
Brazilian Quilombolas during a meeting in the capital of Brazil, Brasília. A Quilombo in Amapá. A quilombo (Portuguese pronunciation: ⓘ); from the Kimbundu word kilombo, lit. ' war camp ') [1] is a Brazilian hinterland settlement founded by people of African origin, and others sometimes called Carabali.
Zumbi has become a hero of the 20th-century Afro-Brazilian political movement, as well as a national hero in Brazil. Today, Zumbi is considered a hero of great magnitude amongst Afro-Brazilians who celebrate his courage, leadership qualities, and heroic resistance to Portuguese colonial rule.
Today most of the Quilombola population is of mixed African-Brazilian and Indigenous ancestry. Quilombos were mainly located deep in the jungles, far from European influence, and after the fall of Palmares, all the quilombolas either went into hiding or were wiped out by Europeans.
Palmares, or Quilombo dos Palmares, was a quilombo, a community of escaped slaves and others, in colonial Brazil that developed from 1605 until its suppression in 1694. It was located in the captaincy of Pernambuco, in what is today the Brazilian state of Alagoas. The quilombo was located in what is now the municipality of União dos Palmares. [2]
Maroon Societies is a systematic study of the communities formed by escaped slaves in the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States. These societies ranged from small bands that survived less than a year to powerful states encompassing thousands of members and surviving for generations and even centuries.
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Maroon Arts: Cultural Vitality in the African Diaspora (with Sally Price) 2003. Les Marrons (with Sally Price) 2003. The Root of Roots: Or, How Afro-American Anthropology Got Its Start (with Sally Price) 2006. Romare Bearden: The Caribbean Dimension (with Sally Price) 2008. Travels with Tooy: History, Memory, and the African American ...