Flight to freedom : African runaways and maroons in the Americas /

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Main Author: Thompson, Alvin O. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, 2006.
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Table of 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.