... Chapter 7, “The ‘Indians of Palmares,’” examines a group that has received little scholarly attention: the Indigenous people of Palmares. What studies do exist emphasize origins: did Indigenous people help build the fugitive settlements of Palmares? The chapter instead focuses on the post-1695...

... Chapter 8, “Greater Palmares,” turns to the natural world and environmental history to trace additional inheritances and legacies of Palmares. Throughout Pernambuco (and what became Alagoas in 1817), African toponyms provide suggestive clues about how and where Palmares lived on after 1695...

... The conclusion, “Tapera dos Palmares,” summarizes the book’s main arguments and proposes a new frame for thinking about Palmares, which, the book has shown, may be thought of not only as Palmares but also as Tapera dos Palmares. The phrase derives from the forgotten place discussed in chapter 1...

... The introduction, “Layered Diasporas,” discusses Palmares in relation to concepts and events in Brazil and also Africa and Latin America. The “layered diasporas” that shaped Palmares are explored through the book’s five thematic parts. Part I, “War and Conquest,” situates the violences leveled...

...People Chapter 5, “Pedro, Paula, and the Refugees,” uses three case studies to refocus the narrative onto the humans who lived in, were taken from, or left Palmares. First is Pedro Soeiro, a Palmares elite, who colonial forces captured and sent to Portugal in the early 1680s. Second...

...Places Chapter 8, “Greater Palmares,” turns to the natural world and environmental history to trace additional inheritances and legacies of Palmares. Throughout Pernambuco (and what became Alagoas in 1817), African toponyms provide suggestive clues about how and where Palmares lived on after...

... Chapter 11, “Connected and Beyond,” explores how and why Palmares has marginalized other histories of diaspora, and it advances a framework for understanding Palmares better while paying attention to other diasporic histories. In addition to another linguistic case study, the chapter shows how...

... Minas Gerais Chapter 11, “Connected and Beyond,” explores how and why Palmares has marginalized other histories of diaspora, and it advances a framework for understanding Palmares better while paying attention to other diasporic histories. In addition to another linguistic case study, the chapter...

... Chapter 5, “Pedro, Paula, and the Refugees,” uses three case studies to refocus the narrative onto the humans who lived in, were taken from, or left Palmares. First is Pedro Soeiro, a Palmares elite, who colonial forces captured and sent to Portugal in the early 1680s. Second is a group...

...Spirits Chapter 3, “Whose Confusion?,” considers the spiritual worlds of Palmares. The chapter begins with a discussion of previous treatments of the titles “Zumbi” and “Zambi,” which have generated a lot of confusion over time, and which contemporary Europeans translated as “Devil” and “God...

... Chapter 9, “Farther North,” does similar work as chapter 8, only now in two more distant places: the modern-day states Paraíba and Rio Grande do Norte. Located due north of Pernambuco, neither locale has figured significantly into the historiography of Palmares. The chapter discusses different...

... why other forms of posthumous or “supernatural” flight must also enter discussions of Palmares. The chapter also uses Inquisition records to paint a fuller picture of spirituality and religious practices in Palmares and the larger captaincy, Pernambuco. What Catholic officials treated as “witchcraft...

... Chapter 6, “The Powerful and Almost Powerful,” examines who secured power and who did not after 1695. As the Palmares wars wound down, some veterans carved out spaces on the frontier, where white men, especially, exercised almost unbounded power. In those same spaces, women and Black...

... Chapter 1, “March 21, 1645,” narrates the history of Palmares during the seventeenth century by way of a unique entry point: the murder of an unnamed Palmarista woman by a Dutch bugler. Using this unconventional starting point, the chapter provides a basic history of Palmares for readers while...

...War and Conquest Chapter 1, “March 21, 1645,” narrates the history of Palmares during the seventeenth century by way of a unique entry point: the murder of an unnamed Palmarista woman by a Dutch bugler. Using this unconventional starting point, the chapter provides a basic history of Palmares...

... Chapter 3, “Whose Confusion?,” considers the spiritual worlds of Palmares. The chapter begins with a discussion of previous treatments of the titles “Zumbi” and “Zambi,” which have generated a lot of confusion over time, and which contemporary Europeans translated as “Devil” and “God...