"The Long Fight for Liberty" Topic
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Tango01  | 04 Sep 2018 9:02 p.m. PST |
"Of the millions of enslaved Africans in the Americas, only those in Hispaniola and Guiana mounted rebellions that brought freedom. Elsewhere, uprisings were brutally suppressed. These books chronicle two rare exceptions. Runaway Maroons in British Jamaica and Dominica gained dominion over substantial hinterlands on their islands. Both established viable communities in mountainous terrain adverse to British troops, were abetted by kindred plantation slaves and menaced the plantation system, aiding slavery's ultimate demise. Jean Besson relates how Africans who fled Spanish servitude won autonomy after Britain captured Jamaica in 1655. As slave-worked lowland sugar plantations expanded, so did marronage in the mountainous interior, where newly arrived African slaves and locally born Creoles joined previous escapees. Maroons fighting colonial militias (1725-38) secured self-rule and land rights, but a second war (1795-96) saw many Maroons deported, their lands confiscated…."
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Armand
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| 23rdFusilier | 05 Sep 2018 6:46 a.m. PST |
Very interesting read. Thank you! |
| Pan Marek | 05 Sep 2018 9:01 a.m. PST |
I didn't find the names of the books being reviewed. |
| Tango01 | 05 Sep 2018 9:46 a.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed it my good friend!. (smile)
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Armand
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