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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... owners . According to the second lieutenant's summary , he was the one who was really being punished " by being denied her services . " This petition was dismissed as " irrelevant . " But the owner was not cowed by this , and on May 20 ...
... owners . According to the second lieutenant's summary , he was the one who was really being punished " by being denied her services . " This petition was dismissed as " irrelevant . " But the owner was not cowed by this , and on May 20 ...
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... owners had not sub- mitted the papers authorizing their sale . " Governor Agüero forced the respective owners to pay the debt , accept their slaves , and use them " keeping an iron chain attached to their feet for two years . In a ...
... owners had not sub- mitted the papers authorizing their sale . " Governor Agüero forced the respective owners to pay the debt , accept their slaves , and use them " keeping an iron chain attached to their feet for two years . In a ...
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... owners to provide ade- quate food to their slaves.15 Added to the rigors inherent in the system of sugar produc- tion and to occasional acts of individual cruelty , slaves also suffered from a planned policy of punishment and terror as ...
... owners to provide ade- quate food to their slaves.15 Added to the rigors inherent in the system of sugar produc- tion and to occasional acts of individual cruelty , slaves also suffered from a planned policy of punishment and terror as ...
Table des matières
Maroons and Their Communities | 1 |
THE SPANISH AMERICAS | 33 |
Cuban Palenques | 49 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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