How would the Quilombo dos Palmares be able to delay or prevent for a time the Portuguese conquest of their territory in 1694?
How would the Quilombo dos Palmares be able to delay or prevent for a time the Portuguese conquest of their territory in 1694?
I think so, but utter destruction is inevitable.Perhaps if the Braganzas of Portugal failed in reclaiming their country's independence from Spain, and its colonial outposts in Brazil have to contend with the attempted seizures from the Dutch, would this detract attention from the Quilombo dos Palmares and buy them some time?
Perhaps if the Braganzas of Portugal failed in reclaiming their country's independence from Spain, and its colonial outposts in Brazil have to contend with the attempted seizures from the Dutch, would this detract attention from the Quilombo dos Palmares and buy them some time?
Former runaway slaves would raid plantations for slaves of their own? Not, I think, would they have had qualms with the institution itself, but if they were raiding to support their own communities in the remote wilderness, I thought they would rather have persuaded the plantation slaves to flee with them, or was there an underlying tribal animosity between the African slaves?
Brazil is just too valuable to be left alone. If the Portuguese are expelled the French or Dutch will eventually come.There's a TL on this very board where a massive Quilombo (sp?) drives the Portuguese out entirely and basically becomes a "black Brazil."
I thought it was kind of cool, even though I cannot remember much about it.
Since the 1970's new books were published bringing new material about this subject. They indicate that the "kings of Palmares" had slaves that belonged to them. Later when I arrive home I can give you the names of the researchers, but at least one of claim that Zumbi and his ruling dynasty (as his uncle Ganga Zumba) descended from princely chiefs of West Africa (or believed so) and they actually tried to emulate the life style of their ancestors in Palmares, including having slaves.
Could they have been coopted by the Portuguese or Dutch and survived that way? This is what ended up happening to the maroons in British Jamaica.