Consists of the last five chapters of Higginson's "Travellers and Outlaws". Fired with an abolitionist's passion, these five true accounts of slave uprisings in Latin America and the United States are among the best writings we have of the struggle to end slavery in the Western hemisphere. Written by a dedicated antislavery crusader and first published in the Atlantic Monthly in the 1850s and 1860s, these highly readable essays combine in-depth research...

"A novel in three parts, Mahagony's multiple narrators grapple with the history of slavery on Martinique and their place in the wider world"--

"Now in its third edition, Maroon Societies is 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 survived 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 slaves and their pursuers, as well as modern historical...

Presents the arts of the Maroons, the descendants of African slaves in the present-day country of Suriname.