Out of the House of Bondage

Runaways, Resistance and Marronage in Africa and the New World

Inbunden, Engelska, 1986

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Beskrivning

Slave rebellions have been studied in considerable detail, but this volume examines other patterns of slave resistance, concentrating on runaway slaves and the communities some of them formed. These essays show us who the runaways were, suggest when and where they went, and who harboured them.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1986-05-29
Mått:152 x 229 x 17 mm
Vikt:530 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:212
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780714632872

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INTRODUCTION; Part 1 PART ONE RESISTANCE IN AFRICA; Chapter 1 Some Thoughts on Resistance to Enslavement in West Africa, RichardRathbone; Chapter 2 Runaway Slaves and Social Bandits in Southern Angola, 1875–1913, W. G.Clarence-Smith; Part 2 PART TWO RUNAWAYS AND RESISTANCE IN THE NEW WORLD; Chapter 3 ‘They are Indeed the Constant Plague of Their Tyrants’: Slave Defence of a Moral Economy in Colonial North Carolina, 1748–1772, Marvin L. MichaelKay, Lorin LeeCary; Chapter 4 Colonial South Carolina Runaways: Their Significance for Slave Culture, PhilipD.Morgan; Chapter 5 From Land to Sea: Runaway Barbados Slaves and Servants, 1630–1700, HilaryBeckles; Chapter 6 Runaway Slaves in Nineteenth-Century Barbados, GadHeuman; Chapter 7 On the Eve of the Haitian Revolution: Slave Runaways in Saint Domingue in the year 1790, David Geggus; Part 3 PART THREE MARRONGE; Chapter 8 Cimarrones and Palenques: Runaways and Resistance in Colonial Colombia, AnthonyMcFarlane; Chapter 9 The Maroons of Jamaica, 1730–1830: Livelihood, Demography and Health, Richard B.Sheridan; Chapter 10 A Comparison between the History of Maroon Communities in Surinam and Jamaica, SilviaW.de Groot; Bibliography; INDEX;