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

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Author / Creator:	Thompson, Alvin O.
Imprint:	Kingston, Jamaica : University of West Indies Press, ©2006.
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 381 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Subject:	Maroons -- Caribbean Area -- History. Fugitive slaves -- Caribbean Area -- History. Fugitive slaves. Maroons. Caribbean Area -- History. Caribbean Area. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11162554

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Varying Form of Title:	African runaways and maroons in the Americas
ISBN:	9781435630888 1435630882 9789766401801 9766401802 9766401802
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-370) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. 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 English. digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Thompson, Alvin O. Flight to freedom. Kingston, Jamaica : University of West Indies Press, ©2006 9766401802 9789766401801

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