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I. Staley Prize in Anthropology--Eugene D. Genovese "Manchester Guardian"
Author : Richard Price
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 18,86 MB
Release : 1996-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801854965
I. Staley Prize in Anthropology--Eugene D. Genovese "Manchester Guardian"
Author : Joseph Maroon
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 44,77 MB
Release : 2017-04-20
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780998350905
Author : Frank W. Cox
Publisher :
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 14,62 MB
Release : 1992-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780962606960
Discusses the history and traditions of Texas A & M University.
Author : Russell Shoats
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,87 MB
Release : 2018
Category : ART
ISBN : 9781629635712
Escaping slavery in the Americas, maroons made miracles in the mountains, summoned new societies in the swamps, and forged new freedoms in the forests. Maroon Comix is a fire on the mountain where maroon words and images meet to tell stories together. Stories of escape and homecoming, exile and belonging. Stories that converge on the summits of the human spirit, where the most dreadful degradation is overcome by the most daring dignity. Stories of the damned who consecrate their own salvation.
Author : Frederic G. Cassidy
Publisher :
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 36,14 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9789766401276
The method and plan of this dictionary of Jamaican English are basically the same as those of the Oxford English Dictionary, but oral sources have been extensively tapped in addition to detailed coverage of literature published in or about Jamaica since 1655. It contains information about the Caribbean and its dialects, and about Creole languages and general linguistic processes. Entries give the pronounciation, part-of-speach and usage of labels, spelling variants, etymologies and dated citations, as well as definitions. Systematic indexing indicates the extent to which the lexis is shared with other Caribbean countries.
Author : Johnhenry Gonzalez
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 42,24 MB
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0300245556
A new history of post†‘Revolutionary Haiti, and the society that emerged in the aftermath of the world’s most successful slave revolution Haiti is widely recognized as the only state born out of a successful slave revolt, but the country’s early history remains scarcely understood. In this deeply researched and original volume, Johnhenry Gonzalez weaves a history of early independent Haiti focused on crop production, land reform, and the unauthorized rural settlements devised by former slaves of the colonial plantation system. Analyzing the country’s turbulent transition from the most profitable and exploitative slave colony of the eighteenth century to a relatively free society of small farmers, Gonzalez narrates the origins of institutions such as informal open-air marketplaces and rural agrarian compounds known as lakou. Drawing on seldom studied primary sources to contribute to a growing body of early Haitian scholarship, he argues that Haiti’s legacy of runaway communities and land conflict was as formative as the Haitian Revolution in developing the country’s characteristic agrarian, mercantile, and religious institutions.
Author : fahima ife
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 21,40 MB
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 147802156X
In Maroon Choreography fahima ife speculates on the long (im)material, ecological, and aesthetic afterlives of black fugitivity. In three long-form poems and a lyrical essay, they examine black fugitivity as an ongoing phenomenon we know little about beyond what history tells us. As both poet and scholar, ife unsettles the history and idea of black fugitivity, troubling senses of historic knowing while moving inside the continuing afterlives of those people who disappeared themselves into rural spaces beyond the reach of slavery. At the same time, they interrogate how writing itself can be a fugitive practice and a means to find a way out of ongoing containment, indebtedness, surveillance, and ecological ruin. Offering a philosophical performance in black study, ife prompts us to consider how we—in our study, in our mutual refusal, in our belatedness, in our habitual assemblage—linger beside the unknown. Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award recipient
Author : Sylviane A. Diouf
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 15,90 MB
Release : 2016-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0814760287
The forgotten stories of America maroons—wilderness settlers evading discovery after escaping slavery Over more than two centuries men, women, and children escaped from slavery to make the Southern wilderness their home. They hid in the mountains of Virginia and the low swamps of South Carolina; they stayed in the neighborhood or paddled their way to secluded places; they buried themselves underground or built comfortable settlements. Known as maroons, they lived on their own or set up communities in swamps or other areas where they were not likely to be discovered. Although well-known, feared, celebrated or demonized at the time, the maroons whose stories are the subject of this book have been forgotten, overlooked by academic research that has focused on the Caribbean and Latin America. Who the American maroons were, what led them to choose this way of life over alternatives, what forms of marronage they created, what their individual and collective lives were like, how they organized themselves to survive, and how their particular story fits into the larger narrative of slave resistance are questions that this book seeks to answer. To survive, the American maroons reinvented themselves, defied slave society, enforced their own definition of freedom and dared create their own alternative to what the country had delineated as being black men and women’s proper place. Audacious, self-confident, autonomous, sometimes self-sufficient, always self-governing; their very existence was a repudiation of the basic tenets of slavery.
Author : Danielle Legros Georges
Publisher :
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 13,25 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Poetry
ISBN :
Presents a collection of poems that explore the author's experiences as a Haitian immigrant in America.
Author : Timothy James Lockley
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 28,22 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9781570037771
Maroon communities were small, secret encampments formed by runaway slaves, typically in isolated and defensible sections of wilderness. The phenomenon began as runaway slaves, unable to escape to safe havens in sympathetic colonies, opted instead to band together for survival near the sites of their former enslavement. In this first survey of documentary records of marronage in colonial and antebellum South Carolina, Timothy James Lockley offers students and scholars of history an opportunity to assess the unique features and trends of the maroon experience in the Palmetto State.