Nicola Lo Calzo - Obia
 
 
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Nicola Lo Calzo - Obia

 
 
 
Photographer Nicola Lo Calzo
Publisher Kehrer Publishing

Obia. Nicola Lo Calzos investigates the heritage of descendants of escaped slaves in Surinam and French Guiana

Despite having played a fundamental role in the anti-slavery struggle and identity construction of the African diaspora in the Americas, marronnage is still poorly understood. Marronnage is the mother of communities that wrested themselves free of slavery and proclaimed their sovereignty in the new world. These communities of runaway slaves were dotted all around the Americas, from Louisiana, to Jamaica, Cuba, Haiti, Colombia, Brazil, the two...

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