LEGACY OF FREEDOM

Abstract

The article departs from the political, social, economic and cultural experience of Palmares to think about ways of disputing the “bem viver” in the ciscoloniality. Based on a ladinamefrican feminist methodology, as initially proposed by Lélia Gonzalez, it takes as a point of reference the construction of political models that allowed black people to live in freedom in the 16th to 18th centuries, as well as continue to inform ways of confronting the afterlife of slavery in the 21st century. Making a critical use of the official sources of the Palmares experience, we intend to understand the formation of a countercolonial multiethnic society between the late 16th and early 18th centuries and its legacies for the grammar of freedom. Upon being recognized as a black state, its population came to represent the first internal enemies of Brazilian society. For its destruction, terror policies were created that are aimed at black people to the present day.