Flight To Freedom: African Runaways And Maroons In The Americas (caribbean History)
by Alvin O. Thompson /
2006 / English / PDF
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African slavery in the Americas has left indelible marks on
thegeographical, political, economic, social and cultural
landscapes of theAmericas. An important part of that indelibility
is marronage thatinvolved both flight from slavery and the
establishment of freecommunities. This book is about the struggles
of enslaved Africans inthe Americas who achieved freedom through
flight and theestablishment of Maroon communities in the face of
overwhelmingmilitary odds on the part of the slaveholders.
Incontestably, Marooncommunities constituted the first independent
polities from Europeancolonial rule in the hemisphere, even if the
colonial states did notaccord them legal recognition.
African slavery in the Americas has left indelible marks on
thegeographical, political, economic, social and cultural
landscapes of theAmericas. An important part of that indelibility
is marronage thatinvolved both flight from slavery and the
establishment of freecommunities. This book is about the struggles
of enslaved Africans inthe Americas who achieved freedom through
flight and theestablishment of Maroon communities in the face of
overwhelmingmilitary odds on the part of the slaveholders.
Incontestably, Marooncommunities constituted the first independent
polities from Europeancolonial rule in the hemisphere, even if the
colonial states did notaccord them legal recognition.
