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Resistance to imperialism and emancipation
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Maroon Resistance
- The 23 octobre 2013 00h00
Marronage represented a major form of slave resistance, whether accomplished by lone individuals, by small groups, or in great collective rebellions. Throughout the Americas, maroon communities stood out as an heroic challenge to white authority, as the living proof of the existence of a slave consciousness that refused to be limited by the whites' conception or manipulation of it. <!-- @page { margin: 2c......
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Maroon Military Challenges to the Slavery Regime
- The 23 octobre 2013 00h00
Historically, the role of Maroons in challenging and undermining the slavery regime in the Caribbean has not been given the attention that it deserves. It is true that from the 1970s a number of excellent studies have emerged. Among these are Richard Price’s Maroon Societies (1979). After careful investigation, I have concluded that Maroons played the greatest single role in challenging the slavery system ......
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Female Maroons of the West Indies
- The 23 octobre 2013 00h00
Historians are to be credited for emphasizing the important though once ignored position that enslaved Africans in the Caribbean assiduously resisted enslavement. Enslaved resistance took myriad forms including day to day acts of resistance, marronage, strikes and revolts. Some writers underscore the fact, however, that far more men than women absconded from slavery. While this claim is true, it does not n......