It’s our responsibility to dig out great stories of black history. Many are racists because of your color black, but during the First and Second World Wars, White soldiers painted their faces black to avoid detection by enemies.
Many
blacks survived because enemies hardly had a glimpse at them. This is a short
story of one of the greatest black women fighters in black history.
Dandara was
an Afro-Brazilian Woman, Warrior who lived in the 1600s. She was a co-founder of
Palmares, a run-away slave community (quilombo) that thrived for almost a
century.
Bravely she fought alongside Zumbi and others defending the
freedom of her people and her community. Palmares was eventually overthrown by
Dutch and Portuguese colonizers, but rather than return to slavery, Dandara
took her own life as an act of resistance.