Maroons and the marooned : runaways and castaways in the Americas /

Commonly, the word maroon refers to someone cast away on an island. One becomes marooned, usually, through a storm at sea or by a captain as a method of punishment. But the term originally denoted escaped slaves. Though being marooned came to be associated mostly with white European castaways, the e...

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Other Authors:	Bodek, Richard, 1961- (Editor), Kelly, Joseph, 1962- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2020].
Series:	Caribbean studies series (Jackson, Miss.)
Subjects:	Maroons. Maroons in literature. HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) America > History.