Colonial settlers ignored a treaty recognizing Palmares as a sovereign nation

Evidence

In 1678, “[a]s he had done earlier, whenever a new governor came to Pernambuco, Ganga-Zumba sued for peace.” The treaty that was eventually signed, Kent quotes Nina Rodriques, “gave a real importance to the Negro State which now the Colony treated as one nation would another.” The treaty, however, had little import for the moradores, who proceeded to claim and distribute among themselves a substantial portion of the “Negro State.” — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 664