Maroon Societies: Rebel Slave Communities in the AmericasRichard Price Now in its twenty-fifth anniversary edition, Maroon Societies is a systematic study of the communities formed by escaped slaves in the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States. The volume includes eyewitness accounts written by escaped slaves and their pursuers, as well as modern historical and anthropological studies of the maroon experience. Now in its twenty-fifth anniversary edition, Maroon Societies is a systematic study of the communities formed by escaped slaves in the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States. These societies ranged from small bands that survived less than a year to powerful states encompassing thousands of members and surviving for generations and even centuries. The volume includes eyewitness accounts written by escaped slaves and their pursuers, as well as modern historical and anthropological studies of the maroon experience. From the recipient of the J. I. Staley Prize in Anthropology |
Contents
Preface to the 1996 Edition | xi |
Maroons and Their Communities | 1 |
THE SPANISH AMERICAS | 33 |
Cuban Palenques | 49 |
Hunting the Maroons with Dogs in Cuba | 60 |
Palenques in Colombia | 74 |
Negro Slave Control and Resistance in Colonial Mexico | 82 |
THE FRENCH CARIBBEAN | 105 |
The Other Quilombos | 191 |
Slave Resistance in Colonial Bahia | 202 |
JAMAICA | 227 |
A Sociohistorical Analysis | 246 |
THE GUIANAS | 293 |
A European Soldiers View | 305 |
Cottica Djuka Society | 320 |
Witchcraft Among the Tapanahoni Djuka | 370 |