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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
New York Univ Pr
Publication date
January 17, 2014
Pages
393
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780814724378
ISBN-10
081472437X
Dimensions
1.25 by 6.50 by 9.25 in.
Weight
1.55 lbs.
Original list price
$30.00
Other format details
university press
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American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment | Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom | Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave | Dreams of Africa in Alabama The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America | Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800 | A Desolate Place for a Defiant People | Stamped from the Beginning
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description:
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.
Editions
Hardcover
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from New York Univ Pr (January 17, 2014)
9780814724378 | details & prices | 393 pages | 6.50 × 9.25 × 1.25 in. | 1.55 lbs | List price $30.00
About: Over more than two centuries men, women, and children escaped from slavery to make the Southern wilderness their home.
About: Over more than two centuries men, women, and children escaped from slavery to make the Southern wilderness their home.
Paperback
Reprint edition from New York Univ Pr (March 1, 2016)
9780814760284 | details & prices | 393 pages | 6.00 × 8.75 × 1.00 in. | 1.50 lbs | List price $18.00
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