Palmares is a municipality/county in the state of Pernambuco in Brazil. Its latitude is 8.683/8°41'00" S and the longitude is 35.59/35°35'30" W. The population in 2004 is 54,794, the area is 376.29 kmē The elevation is 108 m.
According to a contemporary report, the citizens of Palmares were considered free if they fled the plantations of their own accord, but they remained slaves in Palmares if they were "stolen" from their plantations.
Palmares represents a revolutionary potential in Jones's work, as it had in history, because it was predicated on the connection between personal and collective freedom (one freed oneself by freeing another) and between domestic and public space (between where people loved and where they labored, or, more precisely, the social arrangements of their labor).
Palmares for him remains a symbol, both the hope for and the possibility of a place where a man and a woman are free if they create the time and space for their love.
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