Flight to freedom : African runaways and maroons in the Americas / Alvin O. Thompson.

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Thompson, Alvin O [author.]

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Publisher: Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, 2006Description: 1 online resource (394 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9789766401801 (pbk.)
9766401802 (pbk.)

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African runaways and maroons in the Americas

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Flight to freedom : African runaways and maroons in the Americas.DDC classification:

306.3620729 22

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F2191.B55 T56 2006eb

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Contents:

Pt. 1. Ideological bases of marronage -- ch. 1. Totalitarianism and slavery -- ch. 2. Forms of marronage -- Pt. 2. Origins and development of marronage -- ch. 3. The imperative of freedom -- ch. 4. Establishment of Maroon communities -- ch. 5. Military expeditions and judicial terror -- Pt. 3. Maroon organization -- ch. 6. Physical organization of Maroon communities -- ch. 7. Maroon government -- ch. 8. Maroon economy -- Pt. 4. Accommodation or revolution? -- ch. 9. Negotiations and treaties -- ch. 10. Maroons and revolutionary struggle.

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