Maroon Societies: Rebel Slave Communities in the AmericaKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 30 oct. 2013 - 432 pages Maroon Societies is a systematic study of the communities formed by escaped slaves in the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States. These societies ranged from small bands that survived less than a year to powerful states encompassing thousands of members and surviving for generations and even centuries. The volume includes eyewitness accounts written by escaped slaves and their pursuers, as well as modern historical and anthropological studies of the maroon experience. |
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Acknowledgments | |
Cuban Palenques | |
Hunting the Maroons with Dogs in Cuba | |
MIGUEL ACOSTASAIGNES 5 Palenques in Colombia | |
Negro SlaveControl and Resistance in Colonial Mexico | |
THE FRENCH CARIBBEAN | |
Further Notes | |
THE UNITED STATES | |
BRAZIL | |
TheOther Quilombos | |
Slave Resistance in Colonial Bahia | |
JAMAICA | |
THE GUIANAS | |
A Bush Negro View | |
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