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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... ment went so far as to import several shiploads of Miskito Indians from the Central American mainland for this pur- pose ( Dallas 1803 , 1:38 ) , and Indians were relocated by colonists attempting to deal with maroons in Brazil , and ...
... ment went so far as to import several shiploads of Miskito Indians from the Central American mainland for this pur- pose ( Dallas 1803 , 1:38 ) , and Indians were relocated by colonists attempting to deal with maroons in Brazil , and ...
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... ment at the Cofre de Perote in the mountains near Mount Orizaba ( Pérez de Ribas 1896 , 1 : 284-85 ) . The ruler of the Negro settlement was an aging first - gen- eration African referred to as Naga , Nanga , or Yanga . Padre Juan wrote ...
... ment at the Cofre de Perote in the mountains near Mount Orizaba ( Pérez de Ribas 1896 , 1 : 284-85 ) . The ruler of the Negro settlement was an aging first - gen- eration African referred to as Naga , Nanga , or Yanga . Padre Juan wrote ...
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... ment and against consistently heavier odds . Once formed , the quilombos were regarded as a threat to the Portuguese plan- tation , an inducement for escape from the slave hut . They were rarely , therefore , allowed to last a long time ...
... ment and against consistently heavier odds . Once formed , the quilombos were regarded as a threat to the Portuguese plan- tation , an inducement for escape from the slave hut . They were rarely , therefore , allowed to last a long time ...
Table des matières
Maroons and Their Communities | 1 |
THE SPANISH AMERICAS | 33 |
Cuban Palenques | 49 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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