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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... mulatto was standing with the water rising to his waist , without any hat , but a handkerchief tied round the head , and a long sword in his hand . He had his back turned towards me , and on the op- posite border Torres was standing ...
... mulatto was standing with the water rising to his waist , without any hat , but a handkerchief tied round the head , and a long sword in his hand . He had his back turned towards me , and on the op- posite border Torres was standing ...
Page 208
... mulatto from exercising the craft of gold- smith , while a statute of 1726 prohibited mulattoes or those married to mulattoes from service in the town council of Ba- hia.22 Conditions such as these in both city and plantation partially ...
... mulatto from exercising the craft of gold- smith , while a statute of 1726 prohibited mulattoes or those married to mulattoes from service in the town council of Ba- hia.22 Conditions such as these in both city and plantation partially ...
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... mulatto women . Instances of the capture of European women are extremely rare , and in the case of the Buraco de Tatú , no such charge was made ( cf. Kent 1965 : 170 ) . Despite the exactions of the fugitives , there were freedmen and ...
... mulatto women . Instances of the capture of European women are extremely rare , and in the case of the Buraco de Tatú , no such charge was made ( cf. Kent 1965 : 170 ) . Despite the exactions of the fugitives , there were freedmen and ...
Table des matières
Maroons and Their Communities | 1 |
THE SPANISH AMERICAS | 33 |
Cuban Palenques | 49 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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