Out of the House of Bondage - Runaways, Resistance and Marronage in Africa and the New World

List of contents

Introduction, Part 1. Resistance in Africa, 1. Some Thoughts on Resistance to Enslavement in Africa, 2. Runaway Slaves and Social Bandits in Southern Angola, 1875–1913, Part 2. Runaways and Resistance in the New World, 3. ‘They Are Indeed the Constant Plague of Their Tyrants’: Slave Defence of a Moral Economy in Colonial North Carolina, 1748–1772, 4. Colonial South Carolina Runaways: Their Significance for Slave Culture, 5. From Land to Sea: Runaway Barbados Slaves and Servants, 1630–1700, 6. Runaway Slaves in Nineteenth-Century Barbados, 7. On the Eve of the Haitian Revolution: Slave Runaways in Saint Domingue in the Year 1790, Part 3. Marronage, 8. Cimarrones and Palenques: Runaways and Resistance in Colonial Colombia, 9. The Maroons of Jamaica, 1730–1830: Livelihood, Demography and Health, 10. A Comparison between the History of Maroon Communities in Surinam and Jamaica

Summary

Out of the House of Bondage, first published in 1986, focuses on the day-to-day patterns of resistance that directly affected the lives of slaves. It examines acts of resistance in both the Americas and Africa, runaways and resistance and uses runaways as a means to further analyse slavery and the wider slave population.

Product details

• Authors: Gad Heuman
• Assisted by: Gad Heuman (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.09.2022
• EAN: 9781032331034
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3233103-4
• No. of pages: 212
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Slavery
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Social History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, Colonialism & imperialism, Social and cultural history, Colonialism and imperialism, Sociology and anthropology, Slavery and abolition of slavery