Out of the House of Bondage

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

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Produktbeschreibung

Out of the House of Bondage, first published in 1986, focuses on the day-to-day patterns of resistance that directly affected the lives of slaves. It examines acts of resistance in both the Americas and Africa, runaways and resistance and uses runaways as a means to further analyse slavery and the wider slave population.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9781032331034
• ISBN-10: 1032331038
• Artikelnr.: 69949396

Autorenporträt

Gad Heuman

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part 1. Resistance in Africa
1. Some Thoughts on Resistance to Enslavement in Africa
2. Runaway Slaves and Social Bandits in Southern Angola
1875-1913
Part 2. Runaways and Resistance in the New World
3. 'They Are Indeed the Constant Plague of Their Tyrants': Slave Defence of a Moral Economy in Colonial North Carolina
1748-1772
4. Colonial South Carolina Runaways: Their Significance for Slave Culture
5. From Land to Sea: Runaway Barbados Slaves and Servants
1630-1700
6. Runaway Slaves in Nineteenth-Century Barbados
7. On the Eve of the Haitian Revolution: Slave Runaways in Saint Domingue in the Year 1790
Part 3. Marronage
8. Cimarrones and Palenques: Runaways and Resistance in Colonial Colombia
9. The Maroons of Jamaica
1730-1830: Livelihood
Demography and Health
10. A Comparison between the History of Maroon Communities in Surinam and Jamaica