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Author : Cynthia James
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Maroon Narrative written by Cynthia James and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2002 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the concept of the maroon to provide a better understanding of Caribbean literature.
Author : Cynthia James
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Maroon Narrative written by Cynthia James and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2002 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the concept of the maroon to provide a better understanding of Caribbean literature.
Author : Sylviane A. Diouf
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814760287
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)
Download or read book Slavery's Exiles written by Sylviane A. Diouf and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2016-03 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The forgotten stories of America maroons—wilderness settlers evading discovery after escaping slavery Over more than two centuries men, women, and children escaped from slavery to make the Southern wilderness their home. They hid in the mountains of Virginia and the low swamps of South Carolina; they stayed in the neighborhood or paddled their way to secluded places; they buried themselves underground or built comfortable settlements. Known as maroons, they lived on their own or set up communities in swamps or other areas where they were not likely to be discovered. Although well-known, feared, celebrated or demonized at the time, the maroons whose stories are the subject of this book have been forgotten, overlooked by academic research that has focused on the Caribbean and Latin America. Who the American maroons were, what led them to choose this way of life over alternatives, what forms of marronage they created, what their individual and collective lives were like, how they organized themselves to survive, and how their particular story fits into the larger narrative of slave resistance are questions that this book seeks to answer. To survive, the American maroons reinvented themselves, defied slave society, enforced their own definition of freedom and dared create their own alternative to what the country had delineated as being black men and women’s proper place. Audacious, self-confident, autonomous, sometimes self-sufficient, always self-governing; their very existence was a repudiation of the basic tenets of slavery.
Author : Richard Price
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)
Download or read book Maroon Societies written by Richard Price and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Price breaks new ground in the study of slave resistance in his 'hemispheric' view of Maroon societies." -- Journal of Ethnic Studies
Author : Bev Carey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789766100285
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Maroon Story written by Bev Carey and published by . This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Neil Roberts
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022620118X
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)
Download or read book Freedom as Marronage written by Neil Roberts and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-02-11 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the opposite of freedom? In Freedom as Marronage, Neil Roberts answers this question with definitive force: slavery, and from there he unveils powerful new insights on the human condition as it has been understood between these poles. Crucial to his investigation is the concept of marronage—a form of slave escape that was an important aspect of Caribbean and Latin American slave systems. Examining this overlooked phenomenon—one of action from slavery and toward freedom—he deepens our understanding of freedom itself and the origin of our political ideals. Roberts examines the liminal and transitional space of slave escape in order to develop a theory of freedom as marronage, which contends that freedom is fundamentally located within this space—that it is a form of perpetual flight. He engages a stunning variety of writers, including Hannah Arendt, W. E. B. Du Bois, Angela Davis, Frederick Douglass, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and the Rastafari, among others, to develop a compelling lens through which to interpret the quandaries of slavery, freedom, and politics that still confront us today. The result is a sophisticated, interdisciplinary work that unsettles the ways we think about freedom by always casting it in the light of its critical opposite.
Author : Bev Carey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Maroon Story written by Bev Carey and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of the escape from slavery of the indigenous Taino of Jamaica and the Carib of the Eastern Caribbean resulting in the establishment of free Maroon communities in the remote mountains of Jamaica.--Publisher's description.
Author : Nathaniel Millett
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813048397
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Maroons of Prospect Bluff and Their Quest for Freedom in the Atlantic World written by Nathaniel Millett and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nathaniel Millett examines how the Prospect Bluff maroons constructed their freedom, shedding light on the extent to which they could fight physically and intellectually to claim their rights. Millett considers the legacy of the Haitian Revolution, the growing influence of abolitionism, and the period’s changing interpretations of race, freedom, and citizenship among whites, blacks, and Native Americans.
Author : Ruma Chopra
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300220464
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)
Download or read book Almost Home written by Ruma Chopra and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unique story of a small community of escaped slaves who revolted against the British government yet still managed to maneuver and survive against all odds After being exiled from their native Jamaica in 1795, the Trelawney Town Maroons endured in Nova Scotia and then in Sierra Leone. In this gripping narrative, Ruma Chopra demonstrates how the unlikely survival of this community of escaped slaves reveals the contradictions of slavery and the complexities of the British antislavery era. While some Europeans sought to enlist the Maroons' help in securing the institution of slavery and others viewed them as junior partners in the global fight to abolish it, the Maroons deftly negotiated their position to avoid subjugation and take advantage of their limited opportunities. Drawing on a vast array of primary source material, Chopra traces their journey and eventual transformation into refugees, empire builders--and sometimes even slave catchers and slave owners. Chopra's compelling tale, encompassing three distinct regions of the British Atlantic, will be read by scholars across a range of fields.
Author : William Tynes Cowa
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135470596
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Slave in the Swamp written by William Tynes Cowa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2005. In 19th century plantation literature, the runaway slave in the swamp was a recurring bogey-man whose presence challenged myths of the plantation system. By escaping to the swamps with its wild and threatening connotations, the runaway gained an invisibility that was more threatening to the institution than open rebellion. In part, the proslavery plantation novel served to transform that image of the free slave in the swamp from its untouchable, abstract state to a form that could be possessed, understood, and controlled. Essentially, writers defending the institution would conjure forth the rebellious image in order to dispel it safely.
