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Book SynopsisJessica A. Krug traces the history and meaning of Kisama—a seventeenth-century fugitive slave community located in present-day Angola—by showing how it operated as a inspirational global symbol of resistance for fugitives on both sides of the Atlantic.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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
