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In the Forests of Freedom: The Fighting Maroons of Dominica
Lennox Honychurch
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Description for In the Forests of Freedom: The Fighting Maroons of Dominica
Paperback. A stirring account of how a displaced and enslaved people fought to create a free and self-sufficient society on the Caribbean island of Dominica. BIC Classification: 1KJWWD; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
The Maroons (escaped slaves) of Jamaica are famous. Not so the Maroons of another Caribbean island - Dominica, also a former British colony. Dominica's Maroons once controlled much of this wild and mountainous island but few details of their story of resistance and ultimate defeat have been known - until now. Written by Dominica's leading historian, In the Forests of Freedom is a stirring account of how a displaced and enslaved people fought to create a free and self-sufficient society. From the Africans who took refuge on the island in the 16th century, through the two brutal Maroon Wars ... Read more
The Maroons (escaped slaves) of Jamaica are famous. Not so the Maroons of another Caribbean island - Dominica, also a former British colony. Dominica's Maroons once controlled much of this wild and mountainous island but few details of their story of resistance and ultimate defeat have been known - until now. Written by Dominica's leading historian, In the Forests of Freedom is a stirring account of how a displaced and enslaved people fought to create a free and self-sufficient society. From the Africans who took refuge on the island in the 16th century, through the two brutal Maroon Wars ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Papillote Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780993108662
SKU
V9780993108662
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About Lennox Honychurch
Lennox Honychurch is a Dominican historian and anthropologist. He has published numerous books and academic papers on the archaeology and history of Dominica and the Caribbean. His doctorate in anthropology, from Oxford University, focussed on the period of contact and culture exchange between the indigenous Kalinago people of Dominica and the European and African arrivals in the Eastern Caribbean. He ... Read more
Reviews for In the Forests of Freedom: The Fighting Maroons of Dominica
The brave people who held out in Dominica's mountain wilderness for generations against the military forces of two colonial empires have had their story well told at last. Their spirits can now be at rest.
Adam Hochschild, author of Bury the Chains This book will long stand as the definitive account of ... Read more
Adam Hochschild, author of Bury the Chains This book will long stand as the definitive account of ... Read more