HIST 3535 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Great Dismal Swamp Maroons, Repartimiento, Encomienda
5 Nov 2018
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The conditions on the eastern canada that will continue. The punishment for them to be sent to canada. Petit- running away that is a strategy of resistance and then they will return, it is a short period of time. Gran marronnage- it involved a small a group of people they ran away and they never came back and established a community elsewhere, away from the plantation. Florida: the black seminoles and seminole indians (18th century) To be a maroon: living in a perpetual state of war, this was not just threat. The threat of the maroon community the eastern part of canadian that a community that is moved and there not in a condition. In the context in canadian there are not fleeing anything. Conditions for both communities were harsh and that 1000s escaped and there was constant fear of slaves on rest. Escaping is not a way to establish freedom you are always going to be in fear of.
