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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 : 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 : 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 : Robert Charles Dallas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108024149
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)
Download or read book The History of the Maroons written by Robert Charles Dallas and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-09 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1803 work outlines the background to, and conduct of, the war between the British and Maroon rebels in Jamaica.
Author : Kenneth M. Bilby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813028736
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)
Download or read book True-born Maroons written by Kenneth M. Bilby and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remarkably, this and later efforts to destroy the group failed, and today the Maroon settlements on Jamaica still consider themselves an independent nation governed by the terms granted in the 1739 truce.".
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 : 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 : 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 : John N. Grant
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780887805691
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Maroons in Nova Scotia written by John N. Grant and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2002-10-18 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Black Nova Scotians proudly claim ancestry from the Jamaican Maroons exiled to these shores in the last decade of the 18th century: this book recounts the fascinating story of their migrations. Scholar and teacher John Grant chronicles the Maroons' struggle to maintain their proud and independent culture in the harsh conditions of Nova Scotia, and traces their contributions to the development of colonial society. He describes attempts to establish Maroon communities, attempts thwarted by racial and cultural tensions, hostility and indifference. He brings together the elements that show how many Maroons finally arranged for passage to Sierra Leone, leaving Nova Scotia's hard shores behind them. This lively and well-documented text illuminates an important passage in African-Canadian history, combining historical records and modern research to present a substantial portrait of the times, the people and the events that comprise the Maroons' saga in Nova Scotia.
Author : Johnhenry Gonzalez
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300245556
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)
Download or read book Maroon Nation written by Johnhenry Gonzalez and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new history of post†‘Revolutionary Haiti, and the society that emerged in the aftermath of the world’s most successful slave revolution Haiti is widely recognized as the only state born out of a successful slave revolt, but the country’s early history remains scarcely understood. In this deeply researched and original volume, Johnhenry Gonzalez weaves a history of early independent Haiti focused on crop production, land reform, and the unauthorized rural settlements devised by former slaves of the colonial plantation system. Analyzing the country’s turbulent transition from the most profitable and exploitative slave colony of the eighteenth century to a relatively free society of small farmers, Gonzalez narrates the origins of institutions such as informal open-air marketplaces and rural agrarian compounds known as lakou. Drawing on seldom studied primary sources to contribute to a growing body of early Haitian scholarship, he argues that Haiti’s legacy of runaway communities and land conflict was as formative as the Haitian Revolution in developing the country’s characteristic agrarian, mercantile, and religious institutions.
