Author: Sylviane A. Diouf
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814760287
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
The forgotten stories of America maroons—wilderness settlers evading discovery after escaping slavery Over more than two centuries men, women, and children escaped from slavery to make the Southern wilderness their home. They hid in the mountains of Virginia and the low swamps of South Carolina; they stayed in the neighborhood or paddled their way to secluded places; they buried themselves underground or built comfortable settlements. Known as maroons, they lived on their own or set up communities in swamps or other areas where they were not likely to be discovered. Although well-known, feared, celebrated or demonized at the time, the maroons whose stories are the subject of this book have been forgotten, overlooked by academic research that has focused on the Caribbean and Latin America. Who the American maroons were, what led them to choose this way of life over alternatives, what forms of marronage they created, what their individual and collective lives were like, how they organized themselves to survive, and how their particular story fits into the larger narrative of slave resistance are questions that this book seeks to answer. To survive, the American maroons reinvented themselves, defied slave society, enforced their own definition of freedom and dared create their own alternative to what the country had delineated as being black men and women’s proper place. Audacious, self-confident, autonomous, sometimes self-sufficient, always self-governing; their very existence was a repudiation of the basic tenets of slavery.
Slavery's Exiles
The Maroon Narrative
Author: Cynthia James
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
This book analyzes the concept of the maroon to provide a better understanding of Caribbean literature.
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
This book analyzes the concept of the maroon to provide a better understanding of Caribbean literature.
The Maroon Narrative
Author: Cynthia James
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
This book analyzes the concept of the maroon to provide a better understanding of Caribbean literature.
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
This book analyzes the concept of the maroon to provide a better understanding of Caribbean literature.
The Maroon Narrative
Author: Cynthia James
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caribbean Area
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caribbean Area
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Maroon Societies
Author: Richard Price
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
"Price breaks new ground in the study of slave resistance in his 'hemispheric' view of Maroon societies." -- Journal of Ethnic Studies
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
"Price breaks new ground in the study of slave resistance in his 'hemispheric' view of Maroon societies." -- Journal of Ethnic Studies
The Maroon Story
Author: Bev Carey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
This book tells the story of the escape from slavery of the indigenous Taino of Jamaica and the Carib of the Eastern Caribbean resulting in the establishment of free Maroon communities in the remote mountains of Jamaica.--Publisher's description.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
This book tells the story of the escape from slavery of the indigenous Taino of Jamaica and the Carib of the Eastern Caribbean resulting in the establishment of free Maroon communities in the remote mountains of Jamaica.--Publisher's description.
The Maroon Story
Author: Bev Carey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789766100285
Category : Jamaica
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789766100285
Category : Jamaica
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Almost Home
Author: Ruma Chopra
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300220464
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The unique story of a small community of escaped slaves who revolted against the British government yet still managed to maneuver 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 gripping 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. Drawing on a vast array of primary source material, Chopra traces their journey and eventual transformation into refugees, empire builders--and sometimes even slave catchers and slave owners. Chopra's compelling tale, encompassing three distinct regions of the British Atlantic, will be read by scholars across a range of fields.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300220464
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The unique story of a small community of escaped slaves who revolted against the British government yet still managed to maneuver 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 gripping 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. Drawing on a vast array of primary source material, Chopra traces their journey and eventual transformation into refugees, empire builders--and sometimes even slave catchers and slave owners. Chopra's compelling tale, encompassing three distinct regions of the British Atlantic, will be read by scholars across a range of fields.
The Slave in the Swamp
Author: William Tynes Cowa
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135470596
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
First Published in 2005. In 19th century plantation literature, the runaway slave in the swamp was a recurring bogey-man whose presence challenged myths of the plantation system. By escaping to the swamps with its wild and threatening connotations, the runaway gained an invisibility that was more threatening to the institution than open rebellion. In part, the proslavery plantation novel served to transform that image of the free slave in the swamp from its untouchable, abstract state to a form that could be possessed, understood, and controlled. Essentially, writers defending the institution would conjure forth the rebellious image in order to dispel it safely.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135470596
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
First Published in 2005. In 19th century plantation literature, the runaway slave in the swamp was a recurring bogey-man whose presence challenged myths of the plantation system. By escaping to the swamps with its wild and threatening connotations, the runaway gained an invisibility that was more threatening to the institution than open rebellion. In part, the proslavery plantation novel served to transform that image of the free slave in the swamp from its untouchable, abstract state to a form that could be possessed, understood, and controlled. Essentially, writers defending the institution would conjure forth the rebellious image in order to dispel it safely.
Three Narratives of Slavery
Author: Sojourner Truth
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486136108
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Straightforward, yet often poetic, accounts of the battle for freedom, these memoirs by three courageous black women vividly chronicle their struggles in the bonds of slavery, their rebellion against injustice, and their determination to attain equality.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486136108
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Straightforward, yet often poetic, accounts of the battle for freedom, these memoirs by three courageous black women vividly chronicle their struggles in the bonds of slavery, their rebellion against injustice, and their determination to attain equality.