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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... fugitive slave code , consolidated previous restrictive legisla- tion and articulated a complex system of slave ... fugitives by placing heavy fines on those caught aiding slaves ( Recopilación 1943 , Libro VII , Título V , Ley 22 ) ...
... fugitive slave code , consolidated previous restrictive legisla- tion and articulated a complex system of slave ... fugitives by placing heavy fines on those caught aiding slaves ( Recopilación 1943 , Libro VII , Título V , Ley 22 ) ...
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... fugitives have been discovered as far away as Ama- zonia , as for example in the Trombetas region at Alcobaça , where one was headed by a Negress , Filippa Maria Aranha , who was so powerful that the Portuguese had to form an alliance ...
... fugitives have been discovered as far away as Ama- zonia , as for example in the Trombetas region at Alcobaça , where one was headed by a Negress , Filippa Maria Aranha , who was so powerful that the Portuguese had to form an alliance ...
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... fugitives along with mulatto highwaymen as common criminals and thus subject to regular civil penalties . In a very real sense , mocambo depredations foreshadowed the social banditry or cangaço of postcolonial Brazil . Obviously in a ...
... fugitives along with mulatto highwaymen as common criminals and thus subject to regular civil penalties . In a very real sense , mocambo depredations foreshadowed the social banditry or cangaço of postcolonial Brazil . Obviously in a ...
Table des matières
Maroons and Their Communities | 1 |
THE SPANISH AMERICAS | 33 |
Cuban Palenques | 49 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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