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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... Pernambuco , from which slaves profited by escaping in groups ( cf. Pitta 1880 , VIII : 235 ; Southey 1819 , III : 23 ; Loreto Couto 1757 , VIII : Ch . 4 ; and Varnhagen 1930 , III : 319 ) . They made no reference to Pal- mares as a ...
... Pernambuco , from which slaves profited by escaping in groups ( cf. Pitta 1880 , VIII : 235 ; Southey 1819 , III : 23 ; Loreto Couto 1757 , VIII : Ch . 4 ; and Varnhagen 1930 , III : 319 ) . They made no reference to Pal- mares as a ...
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... Pernambuco " ( Ennes 1938 : 195 ) . The estimate appears exaggerated unless the 400,000 cruzados contributed directly by the Crown were included . A single municipality did , however , spend 3,000 cruzados ( 109,800 reis ) in the fiscal ...
... Pernambuco " ( Ennes 1938 : 195 ) . The estimate appears exaggerated unless the 400,000 cruzados contributed directly by the Crown were included . A single municipality did , however , spend 3,000 cruzados ( 109,800 reis ) in the fiscal ...
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... Pernambuco , petitioned for the creation of a capitão do campo ( bush captain ) in each of the eight parishes of Pernambuco ; with the aid of twenty Indians , the capitão would hunt down escaped slaves.31 When these officers were ...
... Pernambuco , petitioned for the creation of a capitão do campo ( bush captain ) in each of the eight parishes of Pernambuco ; with the aid of twenty Indians , the capitão would hunt down escaped slaves.31 When these officers were ...
Table des matières
Maroons and Their Communities | 1 |
THE SPANISH AMERICAS | 33 |
Cuban Palenques | 49 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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