After Palmares

“After Palmares is a beautifully written and stunning work of historical scholarship. With its publication, Marc A. Hertzman will widely be recognized as one of the most important and original scholars working on Brazil and the African diaspora.” - Barbara Weinstein, author of The Color of Modernity: São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil

“In a genius move, Marc A. Hertzman takes the notion of a maroon settlement and asks what changes when we think about such places as starting points rather than endpoints in histories of the enslaved. This conceptualization of the significance of marronage reshapes the field by demanding that we understand fugitivity to exist in the afterlives of violent histories but also serve as generative of powerful forms of well-being and community.” - Kathryn M. de Luna, Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor, Georgetown University

“After Palmares is a beautifully crafted and breathtaking history of the long afterlives of the legendary runaway slave community. With the rhythm of an analytical epic, Marc A. Hertzman reckons with what he brilliantly calls the inheritances and trajectories of the post-Palmares world that came to be after its defeat in 1695. This tremendous book is interdisciplinary work at its finest.” - Yesenia Barragan, author of Freedom’s Captives: Slavery and Gradual Emancipation on the Colombian Black Pacific

"This is a very detailed, historical and interesting exploration of the diasporic afterlives and complex geographies of slavery and colonization. The book holds much relevance for contemporary times and serves as an important reminder of the complicated entanglements of time, space and place and how these are embodied, articulated and performed through diaspora." - Elizabeth Mavroudi, Ethnic and Racial Studies

“The book is a generous example of scholarship that offers the reader tools for analysis and ideas for future research. . . . This well-written book is interdisciplinary work that responds creatively to several of the main questions now posed by historians of Atlantic slavery, Latin Americanists, Africanists, and Black activists." - Isadora Moura Mota, Slavery & Abolition

"This is a rich and rewarding analysis that makes heroic efforts to recover the voices of those who all too often elude historians." - Marshall C. Eakin, HAHR

"A book of capacious ambition. . . . Hertzman presents a welcome pathway to think about what Palmares made." - Yuko Miki, The Americas

"A compelling read that guides us through rich lines of inquiry and methodological approaches and invites us to explore promising new historical debates." - Mariana L. R. Dantas, American Historical Review

"This is, without doubt, an essential work for anyone interested in Brazilian history in general, and Afro-Brazilian history in particular." - Amurabi Oliveira, E.I.A.L.