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Flight to Freedom: African Runaways And Maroons in the Americas - Couverture souple

Thompson, Alvin O.

 
9789766401801: Flight to Freedom: African Runaways And Maroons in the Americas
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 9766401802 ISBN 13 : 9789766401801
Editeur : University of the West Indies Press, 2006

Synopsis

African slavery in the Americas has left indelible marks on the geographical, political, economic, social and cultural landscapes of the Americas. An important part of that indelibility is marronage that involved both flight from slavery and the establishment of free communities. 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. Incontestably, Maroon communities constituted the first independent polities from European colonial rule in the hemisphere, even if the colonial states did not accord them legal recognition.

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À propos de l'auteur

Alvin O. Thompson is Professor of History, Department of History and Philosophy, University of the West Indies, Barbados.

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Éditeur
University of the West Indies Press
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9766401802
ISBN 13 
9789766401801
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
396
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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