Your time is done now: Slavery, Resistance, and Defeat: the Maroon Trials of Dominica (1813-1814) 9781583675595, 9781583675588

Your Time Is Done Now tells the story of the Maroons (runaways slaves) of Dominica and their allies through the transcri

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Your time is done now: Slavery, Resistance, and Defeat: the Maroon Trials of Dominica (1813-1814)
 9781583675595, 9781583675588

Table of contents :
Acknowledgements, Notes and Credits
Map (Fred Fordham)
Introduction by Bernard Wiltshire
1813
Suppression of the Maroons begins
1814
Up against martial law
1814
A governor’s defence
1815
Maroons defeated, Ainslie sacked
After
Memory and memorials
Maroon chiefs in profile
Endnotes
Sources/Bibliography
Index

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