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1	Breaker Boys: The NFL's Greatest Team and the Stolen 1925 Championship more books like this by David Fleming add to wishlist Fleming recounts the story of how, in 1926, the Pottsville Maroons, a semi-pro football team from the heart of Pennsylvania coal country, was stripped of its championship title. For 80 years, Pottsville fans have fought to have the championship restored. see all copies from $7.45! new only from $15.00! \| first editions \| SVS
2	From Rebellion to Revolution: Afro-American Slave Revolts in the Making of the Modern World more books like this by Eugene D Genovese add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $22.74! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Maroon Societies: Rebel Slave Communities in the Americas more books like this by Richard Price (Editor) add to wishlist A systematic study of the communities formed by escaped slaves in the Caribbean, Latin America and the United States. These societies ranged from small bands that lasted less than a year to powerful states encompassing thousands of members and surviving for generations and even centuries. The volume includes eyewitness accounts written by escaped ... see all copies from $3.99! new only from $25.00! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Book of Jamaica more books like this by Russell Banks add to wishlist A white college teacher (nameless) from New Hampshire with an obsession for Jamaican culture travels to the island to write a novel. Once there, however, he becomes immersed in the place and begins to neglect his work for the fascinations of the people. He also neglects his family, who desert him, leaving him alone to pursue his passions. In the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Equatoria more books like this by Richard Price, Professor Sally Price add to wishlist "Equatoria" probes the nature of power relations between "us" and "them". This diary of an artifact-collecting expedition in French Guiana is accompanied by a sideshow of epigraphs and sketches. The authors detailed their day-to-day adventures and misadventures, constantly confronting their ambivalence about the act of collecting, the very ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| first editions
6	Defining Jamaican Fiction: Marronage and the Discourse of Survival more books like this by Barbara Lalla add to wishlist Maroons - slaves who escaped servitude to establish their own hegemonies - are central characters in Jamaican heritage, even influencing literary character types in Jamaican fiction. This work focuses on the place of Jamaican fiction in the larger regional literature. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
7	John Crow Speaks: Teachings of the Jamaican Elders more books like this by Chet Alexander add to wishlist The true story of a young boy growing up in Jamaica who meets a holy man named Bredda Man. Bredda Man was one of the elders in the remote Maroon community of Jamaica still practicing the "old ways." The Maroon traditions were said to come from secret meetings in the bush with wise elders of early African medicine people, European kabbalists, and ... see all copies from $2.97! new only from $10.33! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Maroon Narrative: Caribbean Literature in English Across Boundaries, Ethnicities, and Centuries more books like this by Cynthia James add to wishlist Systematically examines literary representations of the Caribbean in English from the 17th century to the present and traces the persistence of literary conventions in these works. Caribbean literature is usually conceptualized in regional, thematic, and post-independence ideological terms. But in addition to Caribbean literature written in ... see all copies from $92.72! new only from $92.72!
9	The Montreal Maroons: The Forgotten Stanley Cup Champions more books like this by William Brown add to wishlist When people talk about the history of hockey in Montreal they often limit the discussion to the Montreal Canadiens. But what about the Montreal Maroons? The Maroons were the very first tenants of the Montreal Forum and rivalled the Canadiens for most of the 1920s and 1930s. The team drew most of its fans from the anglophone neighbourhoods of ... see all copies from $8.19! new only from $14.76! \| first editions
10	Flight to Freedom: African Runaways and Maroons in the Americas more books like this by Alvin O Thompson add to wishlist African slavery in the Americas has left indelible marks on the geographical, political, economic, social and cultural landscapes of the Americas. An important part of that indelibility is marronage that involved both flight from slavery and the establishment of free communities. This book is about the struggles of enslaved Africans in the ... see all copies from $30.00! new only from $59.16!
11 view cover	Maroon Arts more books like this by Professor Sally Price, Richard Price add to wishlist Cultural Vitality in the African Diaspora Lavishly illustrated with more than 350 images, this groundbreaking new book traces traditions in woodcarving, textiles, clothing, and jewelry created by the Maroon people of Suriname and French Guiana. see all copies from $10.73! new only from $12.50! \| first editions
12 view cover	Maroon Arts CL more books like this by Professor Sally Price, Richard Price add to wishlist Award-winning anthropologists Sally and Richard Price have produced the first comprehensive exploration of the aesthetic development of the Maroons, descendants of African rebel slaves who won their freedom from the Dutch in the 18th century and lived in the South American rainforests. Lavishly illustrated with over 300 images. see all copies from $10.35!
13 view cover	The Archaeology of Alcohol and Drinking more books like this by Frederick H Smith, Michael S Nassaney (Foreword by) add to wishlist Through its complex history, alcohol has served many cultural functions, often constructive ones. For centuries it has been used as a valuable economic commodity, a medicinal tool, a focus of social gatherings, and a mechanism for psychological escape.Frederick Smith identifies key themes associated with alcohol production, distribution, and ... see all copies from $30.99! new only from $30.99!
14	The Fighting Maroons of Jamaica more books like this by Carey Robinson add to wishlist see all copies from $12.50! first editions
15 view cover	The Iron Thorn: The Defeat of the British by the Jamaican Maroons more books like this by Carey Robinson add to wishlist The revised and greatly expanded edition of the well-known book, The Fighting Maroons of Jamaica (Collins & Sangster 1969), vividly describes the Maroons' war against the British in Jamaica. Benefiting from twenty years of additional thorough research, Carey Robinson's new work gives explicit details of the lifestyles and fighting tactics of both ... see all copies from $5.32! new only from $16.17! \| SVS
16	Katherine Dunham's journey to Accompong more books like this by Katherine Dunham add to wishlist see all copies from $44.99! first editions
17	The Maroons of Jamaica more books like this by Mavis C Campbell add to wishlist Study of the struggle of the Maroons against the British colonial authorities, their collaboration with and subsequent betrayal by them see all copies from $34.95!
18	Cudjoe of Jamaica: Pioneer for Black Freedom in the New World more books like this by Milton C. McFarlane, C. L. Harris add to wishlist see all copies from $8.45!
19	On the Mall: Presenting Maroon Tradition-Bearers at the 1992 Faf more books like this by Richard Price, Professor Sally Price add to wishlist see all copies from $6.74!
20	From the Maroons to Marcus more books like this by Seko Tafari, Ras Sekou Tafari add to wishlist A biography of the black nationalist leader who worked to improve conditions for black workers in his native country of Jamaica and pledged to free Africa from white colonial rule and establish a black homeland there. see all copies from $5.89!
21	The Guiana Maroons: A Historical and Bibliographical Introduction more books like this by Richard Price add to wishlist see all copies from $15.00! first editions
22 view cover	Black Rebels: African-Caribbean Freedom Fighters in Jamaica more books like this by Charles B Arthur (Editor), Werner Zips, Michael Dash (Editor) add to wishlist An exploration of African-American freedom fighters in Jamaica, presenting a history of resistance instead of a history of domination. The context of marronage is carefully established: the plantation system as an economic and ideological machine fuelled by the abuse of black working power. see all copies from $52.95! new only from $166.73!
23	The Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Maroons in Suriname more books like this by Ellen-Rose Kambel, Giuseppe Guarino, Fergus MacKay add to wishlist see all copies from $86.00! new only from $99.00!
24	The proceedings of the Governor and Assembly of Jamaica in regard to the Maroon Negroes: published by order of the Assembly. To which is prefixed, an introductory account, containing, observations on the disposition, character, manners, and habits of... more books like this by Jamaica. Assembly add to wishlist see all copies from $28.00! new only from $28.00!
25 view cover	Black Rebellion: Five Slave Revolts more books like this by Thomas Wentworth Higginson add to wishlist Black Rebellion, a fascinating account of five slave insurrections, among them the story of the Maroons, escaped slaves in the West Indies and South America who successfully resisted larger British armies while living an independent existence for generations in the mountains and jungles of Jamaica and Surinam; of Gabriel Prosser, who recruited ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.56! \| SVS

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