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 their enemies hardly had a glimpse of them. This is a short
story of one of the greatest black women fighters in black history.
Dandara was
an Afro-Brazilian Woman, a Warrior who lived in the 1600s. She was a co-founder of
Palmares, a runaway 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.