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

“In Fugitive Modernities Jessica A. Krug traces, imagines and really dares us to plot new paths to liberation by lingering in the work and world of Kisama. While never underestimating the consequences of bodily terror, Krug reminds us that every scrutinized black body contain theories, ideas, and imaginations that often travel in ways we intentionally fail to ritualize. I've read hundreds of memoirs and autobiographies this year. I'm still unsure how Krug made Fugitive Modernities, an academic book, the most intimate and imaginative work I've read in years. Fugitive Modernities is an intellectual, artistic, loving, and liberatory achievement.” — Kiese Laymon, author of, Heavy: An American Memoir

“With Fugitive Modernities, Jessica A. Krug proves herself to be a brilliant historian, as adept at mining the archive as she is at theoretical analysis. She is an intellectual historian who traces an idea through all of its varied meanings, languages, and shifts throughout time and space. This book will constitute a paradigm shift in how we think of intellectual history, of concepts of the Black Atlantic, and of the political ideas that traversed continents with black bodies who defined and gave meaning and purpose to them. This is a major accomplishment by a scholar whose dazzling intellect has opened new avenues for the work that will follow in its wake.” — Farah Jasmine Griffin, Columbia University

“Fugitives in early modern Africa and America survived the predations of slaving states by harnessing political traditions that would cure the ills caused by concentrated power. Tracing the ideas and actions of black people who built self-governing societies, Jessica A. Krug highlights new possibilities for thinking about collective struggle in a continuous age of rapacious exploitation. In this innovative and ambitious work of history, we can envision a free future outside the custody of state authorities.” — Vincent Brown, author of, The Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery

“Fugitive Modernities is a major contribution to historiography on West Central Africa, Atlantic History and the African Diaspora. Jessica A. Krug’s research is careful and innovative, drawing on sources from three different continents to offer an original approach to resistance, slavery, political organization, and identity. Krug suggests new ways to examine West Central African political and social lives and the intellectual contribution of Africans to the Americas.” — Mariana Candido, author of, An African Slaving Port and the Atlantic World: Benguela and its Hinterland

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