26 - Palenques de Libertad - Colombia - Narrativa Afro Latina

04/02/20 • 50 min

La comunidad cimarrona de San Basilio de Palenque no surgió un día de la nada. Para ser reconocido como una comunidad autónoma y libre, tuvo que caer y multiplicarse muchas veces. Bajo el liderazgo de muchos y diferentes nombres. Estas son algunas de sus historias. Más tarde, hablamos más sobre uno de los héroes cimarrones y cómo los palenques se hicieron el espacio en el que los esclavos fugitivos y sus descendientes se reinventaron a partir de sus raíces africanas, y señalaron el camino de su libertad.

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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.