1st Edition
Out of the House of Bondage Runaways, Resistance and Marronage in Africa and the New World
Out of the House of Bondage, first published in 1986, focuses not on slave rebellions, which were of crucial importance but not common occurrences, but 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, and widens the study of runaways and resistance and uses runaways as a means to further analyse slavery and the wider slave population.
Introduction Gad Heuman Part 1. Resistance in Africa 1. Some Thoughts on Resistance to Enslavement in Africa Richard Rathbone 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 Marvin L. Michael Kay and Larin Lee Cary 4. Colonial South Carolina Runaways: Their Significance for Slave Culture Philip Morgan 5. From Land to Sea: Runaway Barbados Slaves and Servants, 1630–1700 Hilary Beckles 6. Runaway Slaves in Nineteenth-Century Barbados Gad Heuman 7. On the Eve of the Haitian Revolution: Slave Runaways in Saint Domingue in the Year 1790 David Geggus Part 3. Marronage 8. Cimarrones and Palenques: Runaways and Resistance in Colonial Colombia Anthony McFarlane 9. The Maroons of Jamaica, 1730–1830: Livelihood, Demography and Health Richard B. Sheridan 10. A Comparison between the History of Maroon Communities in Surinam and Jamaica Silvia W. de Groot
Biography
Gad Heuman
