Biography:
Between the half of the
16th and the end of the 19th centuries, slavery
of Africans and their descendants in America and
the Americas has been one of the saddest
episodes of Humankind history. However, against
all this cruelty that depopulated Africa and
victimized million of its best children emerges
a model of admirable resistance: the "quilombos”.
Of all the American "quilombosn certainly the
most important was the Palmares confederation,
created around 1590 by slaves from a sugar-mill
in the state of Pernambuco who after a bloody
rebellion took refuge in the UBarrigan hill in
the today State of Alagoas, and there
established the base of an annoying "free State
within an absolute colonial Brazil
Zumbi Dos Palmares was born
inside the “Quilombo Dos Palmars” in 1665
organizer and leader of the free black Republic
of Palmares, in Alagoas. During wartime or
invasions the best warriors for battles were
chosen king; “Zumbi was the most notorious king
of all. Fighting against the Portuguese and
Dutch for many years, “Zumbi” was finally
captured on November 20th 1695. “Zumbi” is
considered an African Brazilian hero; his date
of death is commemorated each year with honor.
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