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Author Thompson, Alvin O.

Title Flight to freedom : African runaways and maroons in the Americas / Alvin O. Thompson
Published Kingston, Jamaica : University of West Indies Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 381 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Ideological bases of marronage -- Totalitarianism and slavery -- Forms of marronage -- Origins and development of marronage -- The imperative of freedom -- Establishment of Maroon communities -- Military expeditions and judicial terror -- Maroon organization -- Physical organization of Maroon communities -- Maroon government -- Maroon economy -- Accommodation or revolution? -- Negotiations and treaties -- Maroons and revolutionary struggle
Summary This book is about the struggles of enslaved Africans in the Americas who achieved freedom through flight and the establishment of Maroon communities in the face of overwhelming military odds on the part of the slaveholders
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-370) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Maroons -- Caribbean Area -- History
Fugitive slaves -- Caribbean Area -- History
HISTORY -- General.
Fugitive slaves
Maroons
SUBJECT Caribbean Area -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88001300
Subject Caribbean Area
Karibik
Maron.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781435630888
1435630882
9789766401801
9766401802
Other Titles African runaways and maroons in the Americas