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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Thompson, Alvin O.
Imprint:	Kingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, 2006.
Description:	xi, 381 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Maroons -- Caribbean area -- History. Fugitive slaves -- Caribbean Area -- History. Fugitive slaves. Maroons. Caribbean Area -- History. Caribbean Area. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6653818

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Varying Form of Title:	African runaways and maroons in the Americas
ISBN:	9789766401801 (pbk.) 9766401802 (pbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-370) and index.
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:	Online version: Thompson, Alvin O. Flight to freedom. Kingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, 2006

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1. Ideological Bases of Marronage
Chapter 1. Totalitarianism and Slavery
Chapter 2. Forms of Marronage
Part 2. Origins and Development of Marronage
Chapter 3. The Imperative of Freedom
Chapter 4. Establishment of Maroon Communities
Chapter 5. Military Expeditions and Judicial Terror
Part 3. Maroon Organization
Chapter 6. Physical Organization of Maroon Communities
Chapter 7. Maroon Government
Chapter 8. Maroon Economy
Part 4. Accommodation or Revolution?
Chapter 9. Negotiations and Treaties
Chapter 10. Maroons and Revolutionary Struggle
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index