Flight to Freedom: African Runaways and Maroons in the Americas

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.

Author: Alvin O. Thompson
Publisher: University of the West Indies Press
Published: 06/30/2006
Pages: 396
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.10w x 1.13d
ISBN13: 9789766401801
ISBN10: 9766401802
BISAC Categories:
- History | Caribbean & West Indies | General