How Did Ganga Zumba Affect Latin America

There were many different things going on in Latin America during the 15, 16, and 17 hundreds. Triangle Trade, Mercantilism, Columbian Exchange, Cultural Blending, Cultural Assimilation and Cultural Annihilation were all part of the time. Many different parts affected different types of people in different social classes. In Latin America, social classes were based on privilege. Peninsulares were on top, followed by Creoles, then Mestizos and Mulattos, and on the bottom, Native Indians and Black Slaves. Ganga Zumba was affected by some of these things and he had a different life from others of the time.

Ganga Zumba had an interesting life. He was born in the Kingdom of Kongo, in present day Angola, Cabinda. Zumba was African American. He lived from 1630 to 1678, so had a good life of fifty-eight years. He died in Colonial Brazil. In Latin America, he stated in the Kingdom of Kongo for part of his life. In the social class system of Latin America during his life, he fell into the Social Hierarchy system group of enslaved African Americans.
He was a rule breaker. He did not want to be a slave whatsoever. Eventually, he ran away from and escaped the sugar plantation he was a slave at and started a massive runaway slave settlement. This slave settlement was entitled Quilombo dos Palmares or Angola Janga. He was the first leader of Quilombo dos Palmares and therefore had a very important role. Him rejecting his role as a slave became very beneficial to him and many other slaves because of the settlement he created. Without it, many slaves would have had no place to