UWI BOOKSHOP » Faculty of Humanities and Education » History » ST/HS0258 » FLIGHT TO FREEDOM: AFRICAN RUNAWAYS AND MAROONS IN THE
Model: ST/HS0258
Authors: THOMPSON, ALVIN
Publishers: THE PRESS -UWI
Price: $8,800.00JMD
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This product was added to our catalog on Monday 12 September, 2011.
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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. They had their own independent political, economic and social structures, and occupied definitive land spaces that they often contested with the colonial state and won. This study demonstrates how they utilized the natural landscape and modified it to guard their freedom, and also indicates the dangers that complacency, authoritarianism and militarism posed to that freedom.