Title: Quilombo do Campo Grande
First published: 1995
Description: "Highlights participation of free blacks and slaves in colonial Minas Gerais. Based on an 18th-century document, author maps out 25 important quilombos in Minas Gerais, some with more than 200 houses. Believes that after 1725 and 1735, the imposto por capitação forced many of the unprotected poor to seek refuge in quilombos"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Subjects: History, Historiography, Race relations, Fugitive slaves, Blacks, Slave insurrections
Places: Brazil, Minas Gerais (Brazil), Minas Gerais
LC classification: F2581 .M358 1995