Flight to freedom : African runaways and maroons in the Americas /
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Author / Creator: | Thompson, Alvin O. |
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Imprint: | Kingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, 2006. |
Description: | xi, 381 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6653818 |
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