Ganga Zumba

A quilombo is a settlement founded by runaway slaves of African descent, the most famous of these communities was Palmares. This free territory was established in the 1600s and lasted about eighty-nine years, which is longer than any other quilombo in Brazil. In 1984, the director Carlos Diegues brought this overlooked history back into mainstream consciousness with his film Quilombo. The main historical topic covered in this film is the spirit and resistance of African people once they were separated

settling down with others that have went through the same complications. Thereafter, the optimistic and promising character, Ganga Zumba, was introduced as an influential leader of the Palmares. Zumba, who tried to guide his people to freedom, was granted the leadership role by the previous ruler, Acotirene. Ultimately, the film follows the influential leadership that Zumba had for his people through his courage at a time of extreme struggle for freedom, which results in both positive and negative

optimistic and promising character, Ganga Zumba, as an influential leader of the Palmares. Zumba, who tried to guide his people to freedom, was granted the leadership role by the previous ruler, Acotirene. While leaders like Ganga Zumba have extraordinary ambitions to guide the Palmares, those ambitions can essentially result in sacrifice that manifests into beneficial endings, allowing the people of Palmares to discover other ways out of the troubles that Zumba has constructed by the help of the

According to Adreoni in “The World of the Sugar Plantation”, there are clearly limitations to what a slave owner can do to punish their slaves but pain is still inflicted as depicted in the very first scene. The film began right away with a powerful scene where a slave was being tortured. There’s only so much one could empathize when reading about the mistreatment of slaves in history books but just hearing the shrieks of this slave, the pain seemed to radiate throughout the body even before revealing

The Abolition of the Brazilian Slaves Slavery in the Americas started with Christopher Columbus at the end of his first voyage, west of the Atlantic. When Columbus saw the Indians (as he called them) and he thought they would make great servants to overlords in Europe. The author writes, “he promised to bring Ferdinand and Isabella as many slaves as they required” (Nowara 10). This was a suitable proposition because the lifestyle of slavery was already embedded in the minds of the Europeans during

attack (Schwarts 123). The Portuguese government wanted to eliminate Palamares because the existence of such a community was perceived as a threat as well as encouraging and inspiring other slaves to become fugitives. The leader of Palamares, Ganga Zumba, was overthrown and killed after a treaty he had waged with the Portuguese had been dishonored. He was killed by his nephew, Zumbi, who replaced him as leader of Palamares (Schwarts 123). Zumbi was a valiant and smart leader that managed to protect