Beschreibung
Palmares recounts the journey of Almeyda, a Black slave girl who comes of age on Portuguese plantations and escapes to a fugitive slave settlement called Palmares. Following its destruction, Almeyda embarks on a journey across colonial Brazil to find her husband, lost in battle. The epic rendering of a Black woman's journey through slavery and liberation, set in 17th-century colonial Brazil. The return of a major voice in American literature.
