Maroon communities in the circum-Caribbean
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20087794 |
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| Authors | Silvia W De Groot, Catherine A Christen, Franklin W Knight |
| Year | 2003 |
| Pages | 169-193 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | General History of the Caribbean (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-1-349-73770-3_6 |
| OpenAlex | W2479476112 |
| ISBN | 9781349737703 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
Maroon societies consisted of runaway slaves and their offspring who sequestered themselves in the circum-Caribbean wilderness.1 The existence of Maroons manifested the opposition of some African slaves to their enslavement and a persistent desire to create a free society of their own. In the Western hemisphere, Maroon societies emerged virtually whenever and wherever a slave population existed. None the less, at any given time, Maroons comprised no more than a tiny fraction of the local Afro Caribbean community. The survival of Maroon societies depended on a combination of circumstances, not only the local geography, but also the local social, political and military resources of the Maroons and neighbouring slaveholders
Art · Ethnology · Geography · Maroon · Opposition (politics) · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · Wilderness · African history and culture studies · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Demography · Ecology · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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