Out of the House of Bondage: Runaways, Resistance and Marronage in Africa and the New WorldGad J. Heuman Slave rebellions have been studied in considerable detail, but this volume examines other patterns of slave resistance, concentrating on runaway slaves and the communities some of them formed. These essays show us who the runaways were, suggest when and where they went, and who harboured them. |
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