Maroon Societies: Rebel Slave Communities in the Americas

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Richard 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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Maroons and Their Communities
1
THE SPANISH AMERICAS
33
Cuban Palenques
49
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