Nanny's Asafo Warriors: The Jamaican Maroons' African Experience
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Language
English
ISBN
978-976-637-665-9
Contents
Illustrations
Foreword
Preface: The Porcupine Fights for Justice
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Encounters with History – History of Encounters
Chapter 1: Ethnohistorical Appraisal of the ‘Historical Present’
Chapter 2: The Logic of Maroon Political Praxis: Some Theoretical and Methodological Notes
Chapter 3: Routes from the Roots – Africa in Jamaica
Chapter 4: A Comparative Dimension of West Africa and the Caribbean: On the Structural History of Chieftaincy among the Maroons
Chapter 5: Engendering History: Comparative Reconstruction of Female Political Participation in Jamaica and West Africa
Chapter 6: Sanctified by Blood Sacrifice – The 1738/1739 Peace Treaty as the Basis for Maroon Sovereignty
Epilogue: The ‘Maroon’ Struggle as Part of an African Freedom Struggle
Bibliography
Appendix
Map 1: Map of Ghana Showing the Akan Region
Map 2: Asante Expansion during the Eighteenth Century
Map 3: MaroonTerritories in the Western Hemisphere
Map 4: Slave Uprisings and the Maroon Settlements in Jamaica
Map 5: British Forts in Jamaica Around 1790
Map 6: Cockpit Country Controlled by the Leeward Maroons
Index
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