Welcome in the first black independent republic in History: Palmares Republic

In the second half of the sixteenth century, with the expansion of highly profitable production of sugar cane in the large sugar cane plantations of North-East Brazil, the importation of slaves from Africa began. There will be several millions in the following three centuries to be subjected to inhuman conditions of life and work, the symbol of which is the flogging by a special whip, called the bacalhau; those who watched successful Brazilian TV series in Africa know what I am talking about. In these conditions, many slaves attempted, and sometimes succeeded, to flee. However, the hardest sometimes was not to flee, but rather not to be caught and brought back. While trying not to be caught, some of them created the first independent black republic in 1605.

Welcome aboard this Sankofa that is going to fly over the famous Republic of Palmarès