Cimarron: Freedom and Masquerade nigeria Lazare Sylvestre

Lazare Sylvestre

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For the pioneers of the Windrush Generation

Travelling over from Jamaica as a teenager

Cimarron: Freedom and Masquerade nigeria Lazare SylvestreCharles Frger explores the masks, costumes and characters created by the descendants of Africans and indigenous peoples in the Americas All across the Americas, from the 16th century onwards, enslaved Africans escaped their captors and struck out on their own. These runaways, having found their freedom, established their own communities or joined with indigenous peoples to forge new identities. Cimarron, borrowing a Spanish American term for these