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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... soldiers , came upon the main rebel town , and a battle was fought that lasted for nearly six hours . The defenders of the rebel town boldly resisted the soldiers and , in the words of the governor , " faced our men so long as they had ...
... soldiers , came upon the main rebel town , and a battle was fought that lasted for nearly six hours . The defenders of the rebel town boldly resisted the soldiers and , in the words of the governor , " faced our men so long as they had ...
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... soldiers in the rear with tall tales about the massacre of most of the commanding of- ficers . When , therefore , reinforcements were urgently re- quested from the front , many of the soldiers refused to budge . In any event , those who ...
... soldiers in the rear with tall tales about the massacre of most of the commanding of- ficers . When , therefore , reinforcements were urgently re- quested from the front , many of the soldiers refused to budge . In any event , those who ...
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... soldiers . They would spare only two soldiers so that they could carry the message back to the city to tell the government , to let them know that all the soldiers in that detachment were gone , that it was all over for them , that they ...
... soldiers . They would spare only two soldiers so that they could carry the message back to the city to tell the government , to let them know that all the soldiers in that detachment were gone , that it was all over for them , that they ...
Table des matières
Maroons and Their Communities | 1 |
THE SPANISH AMERICAS | 33 |
Cuban Palenques | 49 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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