Zumbi, Brazilian king (born 1655)

Zumbi

Afro-Brazilian freed slave; king of Quilombo dos Palmares (r. 1680–95)

Zumbi, also known as Zumbi dos Palmares, was a Brazilian quilombola leader and one of the pioneers of resistance to enslavement of Africans by the Portuguese in colonial Brazil. He was also the last of the kings of the Quilombo dos Palmares, a settlement of Afro-Brazilian people…