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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... forest to fight and win a major war against the whites . Now the whites themselves were bringing them peace and many goods . And for that , everyone knelt down on the ground to give Masra Gado thanks . They put all their children with ...
... forest to fight and win a major war against the whites . Now the whites themselves were bringing them peace and many goods . And for that , everyone knelt down on the ground to give Masra Gado thanks . They put all their children with ...
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... forest of Cavalay ; that they did not stop in any houses along the way , since they had brought cassava and bananas for the trip ; that the said Paul and Louis Augé decided to return to their masters and went back to Compté in the same ...
... forest of Cavalay ; that they did not stop in any houses along the way , since they had brought cassava and bananas for the trip ; that the said Paul and Louis Augé decided to return to their masters and went back to Compté in the same ...
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... forest without skinning them , since , having no way of exporting the skins , they have no use for them . That there is no road nor path whatsoever leading to Couroux or any other place , and that they are guided only by the path of the ...
... forest without skinning them , since , having no way of exporting the skins , they have no use for them . That there is no road nor path whatsoever leading to Couroux or any other place , and that they are guided only by the path of the ...
Table des matières
Maroons and Their Communities | 1 |
THE SPANISH AMERICAS | 33 |
Cuban Palenques | 49 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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