Jessica A. Krug traces the history and meaning of Kisamaâ a seventeenth-century fugitive slave community located in present-day Angolaâ by showing how it operated as a inspirational global symbol of resistance for fugitives on both sides of the Atlantic.
Jessica A. Krug traces the history and meaning of Kisamaâ a seventeenth-century fugitive slave community located in present-day Angolaâ by showing how it operated as a inspirational global symbol of resistance for fugitives on both sides of the Atlantic.
Jessica A. Krug is Associate Professor of History at George Washington University.
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Acknowledgments ix Note on Cartography xi List of Archives and Abbreviations xiii Introduction. Fugitive Modernities: Chronotope, Epistemology, and Subjectivity 1 1. Kafuxi Ambari and the People without State's History: Forging Kisama Reputations, c. 1580-1630 31 2."They Publicize to the Neighboring Nations That the Arms of Your Majesty Do Not Conquer": Fugitive Politics and Legitimacy, c. 1620-55 58 3. "The Husbands Having First Laid Down Their Lives in Their Defense": Gender, Food, and Politics in the War of 1655-58 86 4. (Mis)Taken Identities: Kisama and the Politics of Naming in the Palenque Limón, New Kingdom of Grenada, c. 1570-1634 111 5. Fugitive Angola: Toward a New History of Palmares 146 6. "The Ashes of Revolutionary Fires Burn Hot": Brazilian and Angolan Nationalism and the "Colonial" and "Postcolonial" Life of the Kisama Meme, c. 1700-Present 164 Conclusion. Fugitive Modernities in the Neoliberal Afterlife of the Nation-State 187 Notes 195 Bibliography 241 Index 257
Acknowledgments ix Note on Cartography xi List of Archives and Abbreviations xiii Introduction. Fugitive Modernities: Chronotope, Epistemology, and Subjectivity 1 1. Kafuxi Ambari and the People without State's History: Forging Kisama Reputations, c. 1580-1630 31 2."They Publicize to the Neighboring Nations That the Arms of Your Majesty Do Not Conquer": Fugitive Politics and Legitimacy, c. 1620-55 58 3. "The Husbands Having First Laid Down Their Lives in Their Defense": Gender, Food, and Politics in the War of 1655-58 86 4. (Mis)Taken Identities: Kisama and the Politics of Naming in the Palenque Limón, New Kingdom of Grenada, c. 1570-1634 111 5. Fugitive Angola: Toward a New History of Palmares 146 6. "The Ashes of Revolutionary Fires Burn Hot": Brazilian and Angolan Nationalism and the "Colonial" and "Postcolonial" Life of the Kisama Meme, c. 1700-Present 164 Conclusion. Fugitive Modernities in the Neoliberal Afterlife of the Nation-State 187 Notes 195 Bibliography 241 Index 257
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