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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... bands under the direction of a chief , or joined a band that was already established . These bands lived in the hills , in the most remote , least - traveled districts . There was a scattering of women among them . These fugitives had ...
... bands under the direction of a chief , or joined a band that was already established . These bands lived in the hills , in the most remote , least - traveled districts . There was a scattering of women among them . These fugitives had ...
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... band was Plymouth , a maroon who had come from the English islands . This band operated around Nippes . The first counterattack of the colonists , aided by soldiers , was successful . The mission they made in 1730 in the hills of Anse ...
... band was Plymouth , a maroon who had come from the English islands . This band operated around Nippes . The first counterattack of the colonists , aided by soldiers , was successful . The mission they made in 1730 in the hills of Anse ...
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... bands of rebels : the Leeward band , found in the precipitous areas near the center of the island ; and the Windward , or northeastern , band . Each band was divided into several settlements centered on a main town or village and were ...
... bands of rebels : the Leeward band , found in the precipitous areas near the center of the island ; and the Windward , or northeastern , band . Each band was divided into several settlements centered on a main town or village and were ...
Table des matières
Maroons and Their Communities | 1 |
THE SPANISH AMERICAS | 33 |
Cuban Palenques | 49 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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