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A “Safe Haven”: Runaway Slaves, Mocambos, and Borders in Colonial Amazonia, Brazil

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Flávio dos Santos Gomes, H. Sabrina Gledhill
Hispanic American Historical Review (2002) 82 (3): 469–498.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-82-3-469
Published: 01 August 2002
.... Forts were built. Boundary markers were put in place. Laws and regulations were sent. Several kinds of adventures were beginning for the men and women in those parts. Fugitives created escape routes. Flight and the establishment of maroon societies ( mocambos ) in those borderlands took on new...
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The “Indians of Palmares”: Conquest, Insurrection, and Land in Northeast Brazil

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Marc A. Hertzman
Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (3): 423–460.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-10591971
Published: 01 August 2023
... by Indigenous people. Drawing a direct connection between the seventeenth-century mocambos and the danger brewing, the council described the particular fort that they feared as “situated in the deepest woods in the comarca of Alagoas, which long ago was a quilombo of Black runaways.” The stronghold had since...
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Palmares e Cucaú: O aprendizado da dominação

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Stuart B. Schwartz
Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (1): 161–163.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-10216625
Published: 01 February 2023
... a challenging reproach to much of the simplistic memorialization of Palmares as a singular example of persistent and successful slave resistance. Although Silvia Hunold Lara describes the early history of the numerous mocambos (fugitive settlements) that composed Palmares, and she discusses the many...
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Legalizing Identities: Becoming Black or Indian in Brazil’s Northeast

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Sarah Sarzynski
Hispanic American Historical Review (2011) 91 (2): 353–354.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-1165334
Published: 01 May 2011
... details the more recent struggles of a group of people in the neighboring town of Mocambo who received legal recognition as a quilombo in 1997 and a communal land title in 2000. French argues that the “process of obtaining the land and the structures of feeling that are produced through that process...
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Resistance and Accommodation in Eighteenth-Century Brazil: The Slaves’ View of Slavery

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Stuart B. Schwartz
Hispanic American Historical Review (1977) 57 (1): 69–81.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-57.1.69
Published: 01 February 1977
... establishing a mocambo (escaped slave community) from which they resisted all attempts to recapture them. The slaves knew how to disrupt the operations of their master’s plantation, and they had carefully taken with them all the hardware ( ferramenta ) of the engenho so that the mill remained inactive ( fogo...
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Contributors

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Hispanic American Historical Review (2002) 82 (3): iii–iv.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-82-3-iii
Published: 01 August 2002
... professor of history at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He is the author of Histórias de quilombolas: Mocambos e comunidades de senzalas no Rio de Janeiro, século XIX (1995); he is the editor of Nas terras do Cabo Norte: Fronteiras, ocupação e colonização na Guiana brasileira, séculos XVII–XIX...
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Through the Gate of the Media Luna: Slavery and the Geographies of Legal Status in Colonial Cartagena de Indias

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Ana María Silva Campo
Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (3): 391–421.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-8349840
Published: 01 August 2020
... . A hidra e os pântanos: Mocambos, quilombos e comunidades de fugitivos no Brasil (séculos XVII–XIX) . São Paulo : Editora UNESP , 2005 . Gomes Flávio dos Santos . Palmares: Escravidão e liberdade no Atlântico Sul . São Paulo : Contexto , 2005 . Gomes Flávio dos Santos . “ A ‘Safe...
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The Red Menace Reconsidered: A Forgotten History of Communist Mobilization in Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas, 1945-1964

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Brodwyn Fischer
Hispanic American Historical Review (2014) 94 (1): 1–33.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-2390595
Published: 01 February 2014
... litigated land issues in the Salgueiro favela in the 1930s. The communist press sometimes reported on shantytowns, and favela residents who wrote to Vargas in the 1930s alluded to radical political alternatives. 32 In Recife, communist organizers recruited among the mocambos, which figured prominently...
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Other Geographies of Struggle: Afro-Brazilians and the American Civil War

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Isadora Moura Mota
Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (1): 35–62.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-7993078
Published: 01 February 2020
... : Typographia Nacional , 1865 . Gikandi Simon . “ Rethinking the Archive of Enslavement .” Early American Literature 50 , no. 1 ( 2015 ): 81 – 102 . Gomes Flávio dos Santos . A hidra e os pântanos: Mocambos, quilombos e comunidades de fugitivos no Brasil (séculos XVII–XIX) . São...
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The Two Enslavements of Rufina: Slavery and International Relations on the Southern Border of Nineteenth-Century Brazil

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Keila Grinberg
Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (2): 259–290.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-3484173
Published: 01 May 2016
... . 2004 . A fronteira . Vol. 2 , Os tratados de limites Brasil-Uruguai-Argentina, os trabalhos demarcatórios, os territórios contestados e os conflitos na bacia do Prata. Porto Alegre, Brazil : L&amp;PM . Gomes Flávio dos Santos . 2002 . “ A ‘Safe Haven’: Runaway Slaves, Mocambos...
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Black and Mulatto Brotherhoods in Colonial Brazil: A Study in Collective Behavior

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A. J. R. Russell-Wood
Hispanic American Historical Review (1974) 54 (4): 567–602.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-54.4.567
Published: 01 November 1974
... in quilombos see Stuart B. Schwartz, “The Mocambo: Slave Resistance in Colonial Bahia,” Journal of Social History , 3:4 (Summer, 1970), 313-333, and APMCMOP, vol. 54, fol. 114v-121v; APMSG, vol. 60, fol. 118v-119v; vol. 11, fol. 123. In King to Sabugosa, April 14, 1729, the king noted “e entre elles vos...
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Colonial Exiles: The Tambora Volcanic Explosion, Environmental History, and Swiss Immigration to Nova Friburgo, Brazil, 1815–1821

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Damian Clavel, Susanna B. Hecht
Hispanic American Historical Review (2024) 104 (4): 551–586.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-11384938
Published: 01 November 2024
... University Press , 2022 . Gobineau Arthur de . The Inequality of Human Races . Translated by Collins Adrian . London : William Heinemann , 1915 . Gomes Flávio dos Santos . “ A Hidra e os Pântanos: Quilombos e mocambos no Brasil (sécs. XVII–XIX) .” PhD diss., Universidade...
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