Out of the House of Bondage

Runaways, Resistance and Marronage in Africa and the New World
Herausgeber: Heuman, Gad

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume examines other patterns of slave resistance, concentrating on runaway slaves and the communities some of them formed, and show us who the runaways were, suggest when and where they went, and who harboured them.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 1986
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9780714632872
• ISBN-10: 0714632872
• Artikelnr.: 31205762

Autorenporträt

Gad Heuman

Inhaltsangabe

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;