Maroon Communities in South Carolina : A Documentary Record /
Maroon communities were small, secret encampments formed by runaway slaves, typically in isolated and defensible sections of wilderness. The phenomenon began as runaway slaves, unable to escape to safe havens in sympathetic colonies, opted instead to band together for survival near the sites of thei...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Columbia, S.C. :
University of South Carolina Press,
2009.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The origins of marronage in South Carolina
- A late colonial burst of marronage, 1765-1774
- Maroons in the Revolutionary and post-Revolutionary eras, 1775-1788
- A (relatively) peaceful interlude, 1787-1812
- The final flourishing of marronage, 1813-1829.