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

Index
379
government of, 218–19
mass suicide in, 92, 334n2
military training in, 205
physical description of, 176–78
population estimate of, 129
religion in, 236
“republic of warriors”, 67, 129
social structure of, 212, 251
trade with merchants, 258
treaty with Portuguese: dissension
over, 313–14; land grants to Whites,
298; terms of, 291
tribute paid to, by planters, 289
water sources in, 184
weapons in, 209–10
Panama
Maroon settlements in, 114
treaty with Maroons in, terms of, 290
Pearl Lagoon (Nicaragua), 110, 261
Peru
assaults by Maroons in, 133
Lima: ethnicity of deserters, 79; gender
of deserters, 70; urban desertion, 105
Pierce, Franklin, 155
poor Whites
pejorative terms for, 38, 39
position in society, 39, 41–42
relations with Blacks and Maroons,
39–40, 80–81
power, abuse of: by civil officials, 279–80
Quacy, Graman, 269–71
Quakers: opposition to slavery, 106
Quashie, 282
religion
Afro-Christian, 231, 232–38
Catholicism, conversion of Maroons
to, 276–77
clergy, role of, in treaty-making, 306–7
justification for slavery, 348n7
as political strategy, 236–38
role of, in African societies, 229–30
role of, in Maroon societies, 230–38,
342n17
resistance
forms of, 31–32
nature of, 16–17
revolutionary consciousness, development
of, 315–22
rice, cultivation of, 248–49
Rivas, Guillermo, 135, 142, 143, 176, 283
beheaded, 167
despotism of, 213, 214
liberator, seen as, 317
leadership qualities of, 220
Rivas, Miguel, 176, 232
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques: Du Contrat Social
(The Social Contract), on illegitimacy of
slavery, 42
runaways, 44–45
age range of, 64–65
armed bands of, 53–54
castration of, 163–65
concessions won by, 284–85
corpses of, display of, 161, 167
destinations of, 272–73; ; Spanish
colonies, 276–78; urban vs. rural,
72–73
families of: left behind, 57–58; punishment
of, 168–69
female, 72–78
frequent, 55–56
mechanisms of escape of, 95–96
numbers of, in Haiti, 101
return of, by pacified Maroons, 307–15
solitary: limited freedom of, 59–61
solitary confinement of, 165–67
in southern United States, 120
See also Maroons
Saint-Marc, Henriette, 76
Sánchez, Ventura, 141, 260, 306; betrayal
and suicide of, 294
Sandoval, Gómez de (governor of
Dominican Republic), 113