In the Forests of Freedom: The Fighting Maroons of Dominica

by Lennox Honychurch

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496823257
• ISBN13: 9781496823250
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"