Almost home : maroons between slavery and freedom in Jamaica, Nova Scotia, and Sierra Leone /

Almost home : maroons between slavery and freedom in Jamaica, Nova Scotia, and Sierra Leone /

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Author / Creator:Chopra, Ruma, author.
Imprint:New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Subject:
Maroons -- Jamaica -- History.
Maroons -- Nova Scotia -- History.
Maroons -- Sierra Leone -- History.
Maroons.
Jamaica.
Nova Scotia.
Sierra Leone.
History.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12589872
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Varying Form of Title:Maroons between slavery and freedom in Jamaica, Nova Scotia, and Sierra Leone
ISBN:9780300235227
0300235224
9780300220469
Notes:Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 17, 2018).
Summary:The unique story of a small community of escaped slaves who revolted against the British government yet still managed to manoeuvre 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 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.
Other form:Print version: Chopra, Ruma. Almost home. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018] 9780300220469

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