Slavery's Exiles : : The Story of the American Maroons /

Slavery's Exiles : : The Story of the American Maroons / / Sylviane A. Diouf.

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 undergrou...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Diouf, Sylviane A.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2014]
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Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Development of Marronage in the South
  • 2. African Maroons
  • 3. Borderland Maroons
  • 4. Daily Life at the Borderlands
  • 5. Hinterland Maroons
  • 6. The Maroons of Bas du Fleuve, Louisiana: From the Borderlands to the Hinterland
  • 7. The Maroons of Belleisle and Bear Creek
  • 8. The Great Dismal Swamp
  • 9. The Maroon Bandits
  • 10. Maroons, Conspiracies, and Uprisings
  • 11. Out of the Wilds
  • CONCLUSION
  • NOTES
  • SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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