Naufragio Liberador

Looking at the history of the maroon society of Esmeraldas, Ecuador, through the lens of string theory, Speiser superimposes conceptions of black holes with the occurrences of shipwrecks on the coast of Esmeraldas. These shipwrecks enabled the freedom of Afro-Ecuadorian communities as early as 1533, when they established maroon settlements, which became a haven for many others.