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In the Forests of Freedom

The Fighting Maroons of Dominica
By:Lennox Honychurch
Publisher:University Press of Mississippi
Print ISBN:9781496823250
eText ISBN:9781496823779
Edition:0
Format:Page Fidelity

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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.