Almost Home: Maroons between Slavery and Freedom in Jamaica, Nova Scotia, and Sierra Leone - Hardcover

Chopra, Ruma

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300220464 ISBN 13: 9780300220469

Verlag: Yale University Press, 2018

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Winner of the Outstanding Academic Title for 2018 award sponsored by Choice "Drawing on an impressive array of sources, Chopra succeeds admirably in showing how the confrontation between the forces of slavery and anti-slavery significantly shaped the gripping history of the Trelawney Maroons."-Barry Gaspar, Duke University "In tracing the Maroons' itinerant encounter with slave owners, freedmen, empire builders, and African peoples, Chopra adds new complexity to the story of black freedom in the Revolutionary Era." -Miranda Spieler, The American University of Paris

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The unique story of a small community of escaped slaves who revolted against the British government yet still managed to maneuver and survive against all odds After being exiled from their native Jamaica in 1795, the Trelawney Town Maroons endured in Nova Scotia and then in Sierra Leone. In this gripping narrative, Ruma Chopra demonstrates how the unlikely survival of this community of escaped slaves reveals the contradictions of slavery and the complexities of the British antislavery era. While some Europeans sought to enlist the Maroons' help in securing the institution of slavery and others viewed them as junior partners in the global fight to abolish it, the Maroons deftly negotiated their position to avoid subjugation and take advantage of their limited opportunities. Drawing on a vast array of primary source material, Chopra traces their journey and eventual transformation into refugees, empire builders-and sometimes even slave catchers and slave owners. Chopra's compelling tale, encompassing three distinct regions of the British Atlantic, will be read by scholars across a range of fields.

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• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0300220464
• ISBN 13: 9780300220469
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336