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...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 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...

... Chapter 2 traces the colony’s colonial origins and evolving role in the larger penal justice system after Brazilians won their independence in 1822 until its closure as a national penal colony in 1898. It examines the colony’s evolution in relation to mainland history. Pernambuco and the army...

... and Indigenous men also found a certain degree of autonomy, though with clear limits. Elsewhere in Pernambuco, white men who owned slaves unleashed sexual violence against enslaved men and women, a clear indication of the hellish worlds that awaited many Palmares prisoners. sesmarias land titles military...

... 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...

... the responses in various print sources from outside São Paulo to the 1932uprising and considers the ways in which politicians, journalists, and intellectuals in Pernambuco, Minas Gerais, and Ceará, including Gilberto Freyre, used the language of nationalism and authenticity to challenge the legitimacy...

... 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...

... and Alejo Carpentier, the chapter suggests 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...

... in the North and Northeast, how did political groups in the latter regions respond to claims of paulista superiority? This chapter examines the responses in various print sources from outside São Paulo to the 1932uprising and considers the ways in which politicians, journalists, and intellectuals in Pernambuco...

... 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 and Indigenous men also found a certain degree of autonomy, though with clear limits. Elsewhere in Pernambuco...