by Joaquim Sirera Riu, Benjamin Péret · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788480634526
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«El Quilombo de Palmares» is the historical chronicle by Joaquim Sirera Riu and Benjamin Péret (Editorial Octaedro, paperback, 128 pages, in Spanish).
It recounts the history of Palmares, the republic of free slaves that existed in colonial Brazil between 1640 and 1695. It examines its social and cultural organization, its daily life, and its challenge to Portuguese power, presenting the quilombo as a decisive stage in the struggle for the abolition of slavery.
Published in 2000 in the Límites collection, this book appears as a first edition in the publisher's catalogue.
A work for readers interested in the history of Brazil and in forms of resistance against slavery.
Benjamin Péret was a French poet, Parisian Dadaist, and founder and central member of the French Surrealist movement with his avid use of Surrealist automatism.
