The following sources discuss many of the issues related to the research needed in this course. They include articles and books about life during antebellum slavery from historical, sociological and anthropological sources. There are also resources here to help guide discovering additional materials using the library databases. 

Subject Headings to find more content on this topic: 

• Africa -- Relations -- America> AND 
• Slavery >
• Indigenous peoples -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Politics and government >
• Democracy -- African, Sub-Saharan >
• Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Colonial Influence > 

Use advanced search to combine subject headings to find indexed content on the topic you are researching. It also might be helpful to do a Subject search in the University Library Catalog as well. Choose Advanced Search and choose Subject Heading from the dropdown box next to the search bar. 

Palmares in Brazil

Stanley Warren, Palmares: A Negro State in Colonia Brazil, 28 Negro History Bulletin, no. 4, at 79-80 (1965)

Pedro Paulo A. Funari, Conflict and the Interpretation of Palmares, a Brazilian Runaway Polity, 37 Historical Archaeology, no. 3, at 81 (2003).

Robert Nelson Anderson, The Quilombo of Palmares: A New Overview of a Maroon State in Seventeenth-Century Brazil, 28 J. Latin American Studies, no. 3, at 545 (1996).

R.K. Kent, Palmares: An African State in Brazil, 6 J. African History, no. 6, at 161 (1965). 

Find more library materials about the Brazilian Palmares here: 

• Palmares (Pernambuco, Brazil)
• Pernambuo (Brazil)

The Great Dismal Swamp

Kathryn Benjamin Golden, Armed in the Great Swamp: Fear, Maroon Insurrection, and the Insurgent Ecology of the Great Dismal Swamp, 106 J. African American History, no 1., at 1-26 (2021).

Professor Daniel J. Sayers @ American University is a scholar on the Great Dismal Swamp

This TedEd Talk discusses the secret society that lived in the great dismal swamp in the 17th and 18th centuries. 

Professor Sayers has also written many books and articles about the Great Dismal Swamp including: 

Articles

Daniel O. Sayers, Diasporan Exiles in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1630-1860, 14 Transforming Anthropology, no. 1, at 10 (2006).

Books

Other maroon societies include:

• the Cypress Swamps in New Orleans

• Jamaica Maroons

• Maroons in South America (Panama, Columbia)

• Haitian Revolution

More information about these societies will be added over time.

Other Subject Headings for Research: 

Use advanced search to combine subject headings to find indexed content on the topic you are researching. It also might be helpful to do a Subject search in the University Library Catalog as well. Choose Advanced Search and choose Subject Heading from the dropdown box next to the search bar.