26 - Palenques of Freedom - Colombia - Afro Latino Narrative

The maroon community, San Basilio de Palenque, rose one day out of nowhere. To become recognized as an autonomous and free community, it had to fall and rise many times under the leadership of many and under different names. These are some of their stories. Later, we will talk more about one of the maroon heroes and how the palenques were the space where runaway slaves and their offspring reinvented their world from their African roots and pointed the way to their freedom.