MARC Record from Library of Congress

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050 00 $aPQ9698.22.A56$bT76 1998
082 00 $a869.3$221
100 1 $aLandmann, Jorge.
245 10 $aTróia negra :$ba saga dos Palmares /$cJorge Landmann.
260 $aSão Paulo, Brasil :$bEditora Mandarim,$c1998.
300 $a422 p. ;$c23 cm.
520 1 $a"Narrative relates attack of Portuguese colonizers on the Quilombo de Palmares, a self-sufficient farm worked mainly by former slaves who escaped from sugarcane plantations in 17th-century Brazil. Located in a region between Pernambuco and Alagoas, the farm grew to a population of 30,000; all of its inhabitants eventually were killed in one of the cruelest massacres of blacks during Brazil's colonial period. Zumbi, a Brazilian black born in the Quilombo, sustained farm's defense for years as a military strategist without equal. His heroic resistance is remembered with a holiday in his honor on Nov. 19, the date of his death (1695). Novel provides a fictional framework for these and other historical facts"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.$uhttp://www.loc.gov/hlas/