In After 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.

About the Author
Marc A. Hertzman is Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and author of Making Samba: A New History of Race and Music in Brazil, also published by Duke University Press.

Reviews
"After Palmares is 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: Sao 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 conceptualization of the significance of marronage reshapes the field by demanding that we understand fugitivity to exist in the afterlives of violent histories but also serve as generative of powerful forms of well-being and community." -- Kathryn M. de Luna, Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor, Georgetown University
"After Palmares is a beautifully crafted and breathtaking history of the long afterlives of the legendary runaway slave community. With the rhythm of an analytical epic, Marc A. Hertzman reckons with what he brilliantly calls the inheritances and trajectories of the post-Palmares world that came to be after its defeat in 1695. This tremendous book is interdisciplinary work at its finest." -- Yesenia Barragan, author of * Freedom's Captives: Slavery and Gradual Emancipation on the Colombian Black Pacific *



Book Information
ISBN 9781478030522
Author Marc A Hertzman
Format Paperback
Page Count 480
Imprint Duke University Press
Publisher Duke University Press
Weight(grams) 635g