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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... social history . Slave resistance in Mexico is more than just another chapter in the Negroes ' long struggle for freedom and justice . In the context of Mexican social history it illustrates the interplay of diverse races and cultures ...
... social history . Slave resistance in Mexico is more than just another chapter in the Negroes ' long struggle for freedom and justice . In the context of Mexican social history it illustrates the interplay of diverse races and cultures ...
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... social mortar . Without the welding force of some minimum set of shared values or collective senti- ments , without any basis on consensus or agreement whatso- ever , without a ruling - class ideology that , even in the vaguest way ...
... social mortar . Without the welding force of some minimum set of shared values or collective senti- ments , without any basis on consensus or agreement whatso- ever , without a ruling - class ideology that , even in the vaguest way ...
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... social field in which the phenomenon of witchcraft occurs , for suspicions and accusa- tions are only incidents in a complex social process . The de- velopment of a reputation for witchcraft , from the first sus- picion via insinuations ...
... social field in which the phenomenon of witchcraft occurs , for suspicions and accusa- tions are only incidents in a complex social process . The de- velopment of a reputation for witchcraft , from the first sus- picion via insinuations ...
Table des matières
Maroons and Their Communities | 1 |
THE SPANISH AMERICAS | 33 |
Cuban Palenques | 49 |
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