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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... Windward rebels retreated toward Carrion Crow Hill , where they sought refuge with the Guy's Town group . Others scattered in small parties in the region of the Cotterwoods ( " The Further Ex- amination , " op . cit . ) . Meanwhile ...
... Windward rebels retreated toward Carrion Crow Hill , where they sought refuge with the Guy's Town group . Others scattered in small parties in the region of the Cotterwoods ( " The Further Ex- amination , " op . cit . ) . Meanwhile ...
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... Windward rebels now resumed the initiative in the struggle . The letters to Britain took on a new tone of even greater apprehension . One planter wrote in March , The Rebellious Negroes openly appear in Arms and are daily Increasing ...
... Windward rebels now resumed the initiative in the struggle . The letters to Britain took on a new tone of even greater apprehension . One planter wrote in March , The Rebellious Negroes openly appear in Arms and are daily Increasing ...
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... Windward Maroons ( ibid . ) . With the Leeward Maroons pledged to fight against them , and with their own party reduced in size , harassed and weary from bearing the brunt of the war against the whites for the past ten years , the Windward ...
... Windward Maroons ( ibid . ) . With the Leeward Maroons pledged to fight against them , and with their own party reduced in size , harassed and weary from bearing the brunt of the war against the whites for the past ten years , the Windward ...
Table des matières
Maroons and Their Communities | 1 |
THE SPANISH AMERICAS | 33 |
Cuban Palenques | 49 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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accusations affines African Afro-American Alagoas American armed attack Bahia band Brazil British Bush Negroes Captain captured chief colonial colonists Creole Cuba Cudjoe Cudjoe's culture cumbe death Deity Djuka Dritabiki eighteenth century escaped example expedition father fear fols forest freedom French French Guiana fugitives governor Granmans guerrilla Guiana Guillermo headman ibid Indians inhabitants island Jamaica José Juan killed King kunu land Langa Uku leader lineage living Maniel maroon communities maroon societies marriage marronage masters Matawai matrilineal ment Mexico militia mocambos mulatto Nanny Town Negroes neighboring owners Pakila palenque Palmares party Pata Pérez Pernambuco person plantation planters Portuguese priests punishment quarter quilombo raids rebellion rebels roons runaway Saint-Domingue Santiago de Cuba São Paulo Saramaka sent Sergipe settlement settlers slave population slave revolts slavery social Spaniards Spanish sugar Surinam tion town treaty troops Veracruz village whites Windward witch witchcraft women