| Uniform title | Liberdade por um fio. English. |
| Contents |
Palmares : a rebel polity through archaeological lenses / Pedro Paulo A Funari and Aline Vieira de Carvalho -- Refiguring Palmares / Richard Price -- God against Palmares : lordly representations and Jesuitical ideas / Ronaldo Vainfas -- From singular to plural : Palmares, Capitães-Do-Mato, and the slave government / Silvia Hunold Lara -- St. Anthony, the divine capitão-do-mato / Luiz Mott -- Mining, quilombos, and Palmares : Minas Gerais in the eighteenth century / Carlos Magno Guimarães -- The quilombo and the slave system in eighteenth century Minas Gerais / Donald Ramos -- Violence in frontier lands / Laura de Mello e Souza -- Quilombos in Mato Grosso : black resistance in a border area / Luiza Rios Ricci Volpato -- The quilombos of gold in the captaincy of Goiás / Mary Karasch -- Quilombos of Rio de Janeiro in the nineteenth century / Flávio dos Santos Gomes -- Black plains : quilombos in Rio Grande do Sul / Mário Maestri -- Slaves and the coiteiros in the quilombo of Oitizeiro, Bahia, 1806 / João José Reis -- Cantos and quilombos in a Hausa rebellion in Bahia, 1814 / Stuart B. Schwartz -- The quilombo of Malunguinho, the king of the forest of Pernambuco / Marcus Joaquim M. de Carvalho -- Quilombos in the province of Maranh̃ao, Brazil / Matthias Röhrig Assunção -- "I was born in the forest; I've never had an owner" : history and memory of the Mocambo communities in the low Amazon Rainforest / Eurípedes A. Funes -- Appendix : the map of Buraco do Tatu (the Armadillo Hole). |
| Abstract |
This collection of essays highlights contemporary interpretive currents in the study of runaway slaves. While providing several perspectives on Palmares, the collection also examines runaway slave communities in the Amazon region, Maranhão, Pernambuco, Bahia, Rio Grande do Sul, Rio de Janeiro, Goiás, Mato Grosso, and Minas Gerais. |
| General note | Translation of the 1996 publication, Liberdade por um fio: história dos quilombos no Brasil. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2014938292 |
| ISBN | 9781937306311 |
| ISBN | 1937306313 |
