Maroon Societies
Subtitle: Rebel Slave Communities in the Americas
Edition: third edition edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press; Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: September 3, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780801854965
Subjects: American history; Anthropology; Slavery & emancipation; Social history; Maroons; History Of Blacks; Slavery; History - General History; History: World; Caribbean Sea; Central America; South America; USA; Minority Studies - General; Latin America - General; World - General; History / Latin America; America; Fugitive slaves
First sentence: The first slave rebellions were contemporaneous with the beginning of the slave trade and the introduction of slavery into the Americas.
Description: Now in its third edition, Maroon Societies is a systematic study of the communities formed by escaped slaves in the Carribean, 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.

For this edition, Richard Price has written a new preface reflecting recent changes in both maroon scholarship and in the lives of contemporary maroons throughout the Americas.