Maroon Societies

by Price, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780801854965
• ISBN10: 0801854962
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-09-03
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

Summary

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

Author Biography

Richard Price divides his time between rural Martinique and the College of William and Mary, where he is Dittman Professor of American Studies and Professor of Anthropology and History. His many books include First-Time, winner of the Elsie Clews Parsons Prize of the American Folklore Society, Stedman's Surinam (with Sally Price), and Alabi's World, recipient of the American Historical Association's Albert J. Beveridge Award and the Gordon K. Lewis Memorial Award for Caribbean Scholarshipall three available as Johns Hopkins paperbacks.

Table of Contents

Preface to the 1996 Edition	xi
Introduction: Maroons and Their Communities	1	(32)
PART ONE: THE SPANISH AMERICAS	33	(72)
1. Maroons and Slave Rebellions in the Spanish Territories	35	(14)
JOSE L. FRANCO
2. Cuban Palenques	49	(11)
FRANCISCO PEREZ DE LA RIVA
3. Hunting the Maroons with Dogs in Cuba	60	(4)
DEMOTICUS PHILALETHES
4. Life in a Venezuelan Cumbe	64	(10)
MIGUEL ACOSTA SAIGNES
5. Palenques in Colombia	74	(8)
AQUILES ESCALANTE
6. Negro Slave Control and Resistance in Colonial Mexico, 1519-1650	82	(23)
DAVID M. DAVIDSON
PART TWO: THE FRENCH CARIBBEAN	105	(44)
7. Marronage in the French Caribbean	107	(28)
GABRIEL DEBIEN
8. The Border Maroons of Saint-Domingue: Le Maniel M. L. E. MOREAU DE SAINT-MERY	135	(8)
9. Le Maniel: Further Notes	143	(6)
YVAN DEBBASCH
PART THREE: THE UNITED STATES	149	(20)
10. Maroons Within the Present Limits of the United States	151	(18)
HERBERT APTHEKER
PART FOUR: BRAZIL	169	(58)
11. Palmares: An African State in Brazil	170	(21)
R. K. KENT
12. The Other Quilombos	191	(11)
ROGER BASTIDE
13. The Mocambo: Slave Resistance in Colonial Bahia	202	(25)
STUART B. SCHWARTZ
PART FIVE: JAMAICA	227	(66)
14. Observations on...the Maroon Negroes of the Island of Jamaica	230	(16)
BRYAN EDWARDS
15. Slavery and Slave Revolts: A Sociohistorical Analysis of the First Maroon War, 1665-1740	246	(47)
ORLANDO PATTERSON
PART SIX: THE GUIANAS	293	(106)
16. Guerrilla Warfare: A Bush Negro View	298	(7)
JOHANNES KING
17. Guerrilla Warfare: A European Soldier's View	305	(7)
CAPTAIN J. G. STEDMAN
18. Rebel Village in French Guiana: A Captive's Description	312	(8)
19. Unity and Disunity: Cottica Djuka Society as a Kinship System	320	(50)
A. J. F. KOBBEN
20. Witchcraft Among the Tapanahoni Djuka	370	(19)
W. VAN WETERING
21. The Bush Negro Chiefs Visit Africa: Diary of an Historic Trip	389	(10)
SILVIA W. DE GROOT
Bibliographical Notes	399	(5)
General Bibliography	404	(13)
Index	417