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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... death [ " Further Examination of Sarra . . " enclosed in Hunter / Bd . of Trade , October 13 , 1773 , Calendar of State Papers , Vol . 40 , pp . 215–16 ] . Throughout the hemisphere , desertion was commonly pun- ished by death . In ...
... death [ " Further Examination of Sarra . . " enclosed in Hunter / Bd . of Trade , October 13 , 1773 , Calendar of State Papers , Vol . 40 , pp . 215–16 ] . Throughout the hemisphere , desertion was commonly pun- ished by death . In ...
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... death . Village captains are obliged to report every demise , stating the supernatural cause of death to the oracle priests , who may endorse or repudiate the verdict . By this means the priests of Dritabiki are at all times well ...
... death . Village captains are obliged to report every demise , stating the supernatural cause of death to the oracle priests , who may endorse or repudiate the verdict . By this means the priests of Dritabiki are at all times well ...
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... death the usual inquest was held to discover the cause of death . Even before the kinsmen of the deceased had arrived from her own vil- lage , the people of Dritabiki started with the first round of carrying the bier . After this they ...
... death the usual inquest was held to discover the cause of death . Even before the kinsmen of the deceased had arrived from her own vil- lage , the people of Dritabiki started with the first round of carrying the bier . After this they ...
Table des matières
Maroons and Their Communities | 1 |
THE SPANISH AMERICAS | 33 |
Cuban Palenques | 49 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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