In this detailed, brilliantly researched book, historian Lennox Honychurch tells the enthralling and previously untold story of how the Maroons of Dominica challenged the colonial powers in a heroic struggle to create a free and self-sufficient society.The Maroons, runaways who escaped slavery, formed their own community on the Caribbean island. Much has been written about the Maroons of Jamaica, little about the Maroons of Dominica. This book redresses this gap.
Honychurch takes the reader deep into the forested hinterland of Dominica to explore the political, social, and economic impact of the Maroons and details their struggles and victories.
- ISBN13 9781496823250
- Publish Date 1 July 2019 (first published 31 July 2017)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University Press of Mississippi
- Format Paperback
- Pages 240
- Language English