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- Title
Maroon Emancipationists: Dominica's Africans and Igbos in the Age of Revolution, 1763-1814.
- Authors
VAZ, NEIL C.
- Abstract
In the 1760s, a maroon community developed in the island of Dominica's interior. They sustained themselves independently for more than fifty years. These maroons, however, were universal emancipationists - a nation that attempted to destroy all traces of slavery in their midst. Furthermore, though their existence ran concurrent with the French Revolution, these maroons, for the most part, avoided integration with that movement. They preserved their own independent philosophies, not rooted in European thought, but African, more particularly, Igbo philosophy. The philosophy of Dominica's maroons was the reason for their endured successes, but was also the leading factor contributing to their eventual demise.
- Subjects
DOMINICA; MAROONS; EMANCIPATION of slaves; MAROONS in literature; HISTORY of slavery; ANTISLAVERY movements; AGE of Revolutions (1775-1848)
- Publication
Journal of Caribbean History, 2019, Vol 53, Issue 1, p27
- ISSN
0047-2263
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/jch.2019.0007