Maroon societies: rebel slave communities in the Americas / Richard Price, compiler.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 404-416) and index.

Articles include historical accounts, written by slaves and slavers, anthropological studies, and researched papers which examine maroon societies over the centuries.

Introduction : Maroons and their communities -- The Spanish Americas. Maroons and slave rebellions in the Spanish Territories / Jos e L. Franco ; Cuban palenques / Francisco P erez de la Riva ; Hunting the Maroons with dogs in Cuba / Demoticus Philalethes ; Life in a Venezuelan cumbe / Miguel Acosta Saignes ; Palenques in Colombia / Aquiles Escalante ; Negro slave control and resistance in Colonial Mexico, 1519-1650 / David M. Davidson -- The French Caribbean. Marronage in the French Caribbean / Gabriel Debien ; The border Maroons of Saint-Domingue : le Maniel / M.L.E. Moreau de Saint-M ery ; Le Maniel : further notes / Yvan Debbasch -- The United States. Maroons within the present limits of the United States / Herbert Aptheker -- Brazil. Palmares : an African state in Brazil / R.K. Kent ; The other quilombos / Roger Bastide ; The Mocambo : slave resistance in Colonial Bahia / Stuart B. Schwartz -- Jamaica. Observations on ... the Maroon negroes of the Island of Jamaica / Bryan Edwards ; Slavery and slave revolts : a sociohistorical analysis of the First Maroon War, 1665-1740 / Orlando Patterson -- The Guianas. Guerrilla warfare : a Bush negro view / Johannes King ; Guerrilla warfare : a European soldier's view / J.G. Stedman ; Rebel village in French Guiana : a captive's description ; Unity and disunity : Cottica Djuka Society as a kinship system / A.J.F. K obren [sic] ; Witchcraft among the Tapanahoni Djuka / W. van Wetering ; The Bush negro chiefs visit Africa : diary of an historic trip / Silvia W. de Groot.

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