Other Black Atlantic borders: escape routes, 'mocambos', and fears of sedition in Brazil and French Guiana (eighteenth to nineteenth centuries)
Analyzes cultural exchanges and the formation of identities, specifically looking at Maroon societies established on the borders of colonial Brazil and French Guiana. Author identifies forms of micropolitical agency among slaves and escaped (former) slaves in this area in light of Portuguese and Fre...
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Language: | English |
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BRILL
2003-07-01
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Online Access: | http://www.kitlv-journals.nl/index.php/nwig/article/view/3443 |