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Flight to Freedom: African Runaways and Maroons in the Americas

by Thompson, Alvin O

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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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  • University Press of the W Brand
  • Jun 30, 2006 Pub Date:
  • 9766401802 ISBN-10:
  • 9789766401801 ISBN-13:
  • English Language
  • 9 in * 0.88 in * 6 in Dimensions:
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