Negotiating Freedom in the Circum-Caribbean - The Jamaican Maroons and Creek Nation Compared

List of contents

Introduction 1. The Relationship Develops: Maroons and Creeks in the Early Post-Treaty Years 2. The Relationship Deteriorates: On the Road to War 3. Runaways and Rebellions: Maroons and Creeks as Hunters and Harbourers 4. African Americans in Maroon and Creek Country 5. Desirable Lands?: Land Disputes on the Maroon and Creek Borders 6. Contact Across the Borders: Maroon and Creek Interaction with White Settlers. Epilogue

About the author

Helen M. McKee completed her PhD at Newcastle University. She is the author of "From Violence to Alliance: Maroons and White Settlers in Jamaica, 1739-1795," published in Slavery & Abolition.

Summary

For the first time, Jamaican Maroons are compared with the Creek Nation to question how non-white, semi-autonomous groups were reduced by Anglophone colonists. Analysis includes interactions with settlers, slave-catching and ownership, land conflict and dispute resolution, to show how Maroons can be considered within an indigenous framework.

Product details

• Authors: Helen M. McKee
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780367661892
• ISBN: 978-0-367-66189-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Routledge Studies in the History of the Americas
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Jamaica, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), POLITICAL SCIENCE / Imperialism, Colonialism & imperialism, Indigenous Peoples, c 1500 onwards to present day, Colonialism and imperialism, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, History of the Americas, History and Archaeology, HISTORY / Indigenous / General