Denying Sovereignties: Empires, Maps, and Runaway Indigenous People and Maroons in Amazonian Borderlands (1777-1800)

• Main Author: Farias Rendeiro Neto, Manoel Domingos
• Other Authors: Pérez Meléndez, José Juan
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2020
• Subjects: History; Latin American history; Latin American studies; Amazon Borderlands; Cartography; Fugitives; Indigenous Peoples; Maroons; Portuguese Empire; North Cape
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4fg5f2cx

Located on the Atlantic coast of the Amazon’s northernmost reaches, the North Cape was a remote but resource-rich region in halfway between the French colonial outpost of Cayenne and the Portuguese port city of Belém. In between these imperial jurisdictions, Indigenous groups and maroons’ communitie...