African diaspora - AAIHS

Revisiting Palmares: Maroon Communities in Brazil (Celeste Henery)

This is a guest post by Celeste Henery, a Research Associate at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) in the

On June 15, 1969 the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover, famously declared that the

Often times when students hear me lecture about the famed Brazilian quilombo (runaway settlement) of Palmares, they want to know

As a historian of slavery and colonial America, I have to admit I was a bit taken aback when asked

One evening, on a road in Jamaica, a soldier belonging to the “Mulatto Company” made his evening rounds. He came