60199616-flight-to-freedom-african-runaways-and-maroons-in-the-americas

Index
375
freedom
access to, for Black people, 32–33
desire for, 40–52, 74, 92, 331n12;among
castrated runaways, 165;among
women, 72, 76
exchange of, for service to state,
266–67
extent of, in Maroon communities, 52
reactions to, of runaways, 328
right to, 42, 51
routes to, 91–96
Fugitive Slave Act, 155
Ganga-Zumba, 142, 219, 231, 291, 298;
assassination of, 313–14
Garçon, 125
Gilbert, William F.A., 41
Grandy Nanny, 4,11, 76–77, 176, 305,
340–41n2; spiritual powers of, 232
Guadeloupe Maroon community, 176
population estimate, 128
sexual composition of, 69
Guyana
Demerara: betrayal of Maroons in,
267; large-scale desertion in, 66
Essequibo: large-scale desertion in, 66
Maroon settlements in: defence systems
of, 188
See also Berbice
Guzmán, Diego de, 132
Haiti, 48–49
celebration of Maroon heritage in, 2–3
conflict with Dominican Republic,
275–76
deserters in: numbers of women,
69–70
large-scale desertion in, 66
Maroon settlements in: defence systems
of, 188
religion in, 231, 232
revolution in (1791–1804), 15, 16, 37–38,
43, 51, 93; roots of, 57, 319–20; subsequent
increase in runaways, 92
sadism of enslavers in, 23–24
topographical features of, 181
treaties, none signed in, 315
urban marronage in,105
Vien-Vien, 47
See also Makandal
Henson, Josiah, 107
historiography, colonial and imperial,
11–13
house styles, Maroon, 253–54
Huachinango Pablo, 83
Illescas, Alonso de, 6; despotism of, 213–14
impressment
of free Black and Coloured “auxiliaries”,
148
of colonists, to hunt Maroons, 147
Indians
alliances with Black Maroons, 79,
83–84, 97–99
as enslavers, 124
first Maroons, 96
as Maroon hunters, 96–97, 149
Seminole, treaty with US, 301
Jackson, Andrew, 125
Jamaica
assaults by Maroons in: effect on economy,
118; martial law, 131
bark-cloth production in, 255
Black Shots in, 149, 150, 267, 337n7
celebration of Maroon heritage in, 4
desertion in, by Black Maroonhunters,
149–50
ethnic conflicts in, 80
fear of Maroons in, 131
gender of deserters in, 70
Juan de Bolas Maroons, 118; agriculture
among, 246–47; betrayal of
Karmahaly Maroons, 85; election of
leader, 220; population estimate, 128
Karmahaly Maroons, 118, 286; bounties