Maroon Societies: Rebel Slave Communities in the AmericasRichard Price Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979 - 445 pages "Maroon societies is the first systematic study of the communities form 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." -- Provided by publisher |
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... Indians . They go to the wilderness each year and come out at Christmastime , which is in the dry season , burning ranches , killing Spaniards as well as domesticated Indians , and stealing women . In an even earlier report , in 1530 ...
... Indians . They go to the wilderness each year and come out at Christmastime , which is in the dry season , burning ranches , killing Spaniards as well as domesticated Indians , and stealing women . In an even earlier report , in 1530 ...
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... Indians who had been driven back previously . It has often been said that the Africans and the Indians were enemies , and it is perfectly true that they often found them- selves , due to circumstance , pitted against each other . But ...
... Indians who had been driven back previously . It has often been said that the Africans and the Indians were enemies , and it is perfectly true that they often found them- selves , due to circumstance , pitted against each other . But ...
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... Indian allies against a restive slave population was made in 1633 by Du- arte Gomes da Silveira , a colonist in Parahiba . He writes : There is no doubt that without Indians in Brazil there can be no Negroes of Guiné , or better said ...
... Indian allies against a restive slave population was made in 1633 by Du- arte Gomes da Silveira , a colonist in Parahiba . He writes : There is no doubt that without Indians in Brazil there can be no Negroes of Guiné , or better said ...
Table des matières
Maroons and Their Communities | 1 |
THE SPANISH AMERICAS | 33 |
Cuban Palenques | 49 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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