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

Index
377
fishing and gathering, 249; mining
and metalworking, 251–53
food: preparation of, 254–55; security of
supply, 244
fraternal relations between, 200–201
freedom in, 52, 216, 326
government of, 218–23
humane principles in, 218
hygiene in, 184, 339n10
inequities in, 211–12
influences on, external and internal,
102
labour specialization in, 250
land value in, improvement of, 241
locating, 6
material culture of, 240
multi-ethnicity of, 13–14, 79–88, 175–76;
338n1
number of, 110
peaceful vs. aggressive, 16, 201–3
physical organisation of, 176–87
population estimates of, 128–29
religion in, 230–38; Christianity, 232–38
sexual composition of, 69–71
similarity between, 7
slavery in, 223–29
social structure of, 11, 13, 175–76;
204–206, 211–18
weapons in, 209–10, 259, 260, 261
Whites in, 80–81, 333n15
women, named after, 77–78
See also names of larger communities. See
also under individual colonies
Maroon descendants, 5
Ndjuka (Suriname), 11; political system,
221–22; religion, role of, 229
skills, range of, among, 256
Maroon expeditions, 144–54
Black and Coloured “auxiliaries”, 148
citizen militias, 145, 147–48
desertion by Black Maroon-hunters,
149–50
futility of, 146
hardships encountered by, 178, 180,
182–83, 185–87
leaders of, 156–60
provision grounds, destruction by, 241,
251
regular army, 145–46
reprisals against, by Maroons, 154
revenge as motive for, 203
scouts in, 150
Maroon government, 211–38
African features of, 222–23
consultative principle, 218–20
despotisms, 212–16
inequities, 211–12
separation of powers, 221
slave society, comparison with, 216
Maroon leaders
conflict between, over treaties, 305–6
contempt of, for Whites, 285
despotism of, 212–15, 222–23
female, 76–77
male, 6
powers of, 218–21
summary execution by, 223
treaties, negotiation of: betrayal of followers,
304–6, 312; runaways, return
of, 307–15
See also individual names
Maroon place names, surviving, 5
Maroons
artisans among, 256
betrayal of, by comrades, 269, 285–89
bravery of, 203–4, 217
cooperation with Spanish by, in
Florida, 122
first recorded, in the Americas, 112
free Blacks, relations with, 38, 267–72
Indian, 96, 124, 126, 127
Indians, hostile relations with, 245
life expectancy of, 46
material culture of, 256–57
negotiations with enslavers, 278–89
pejorative descriptions of, 28–29