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The Maroons! it was a word of peril once; and terror spread along the skirts of the blue mountains of Jamaica when some fresh foray of those unconquered guerrillas swept down from the outlying plantations, startled the Assembly from its order, Gen. Williamson from his billiards, and Lord Balcarres from his diplomatic ease,-endangering, according to the official statement, "public credit," "civil right," and "the prosperity, if not the very existence, of the country," until they were "persuaded to make peace" at last. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
free colored man, country negroes, colored population Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Nat Turner, Denmark Vesey, South Carolina, United States, Peter Poyas, North Carolina, Southampton County, Dismal Swamp, Richmond Enquirer, Gullah Jack, John Brown, New York, Southern States, Don Guillermo, Maroons of Surinam, Monday Gell, New Orleans, Old Montagu, William Garner, William Paul, Joseph Travis, Prophet Nat, San Domingo New!
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The Maroons! it was a word of peril once; and terror spread along the skirts of the blue mountains of Jamaica when some fresh foray of those unconquered guerrillas swept down from the outlying plantations, startled the Assembly from its order, Gen. Williamson from his billiards, and Lord Balcarres from his diplomatic ease,-endangering, according to the official statement, "public credit," "civil right," and "the prosperity, if not the very existence, of the country," until they were "persuaded to make peace" at last. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
free colored man, country negroes, colored population Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Nat Turner, Denmark Vesey, South Carolina, United States, Peter Poyas, North Carolina, Southampton County, Dismal Swamp, Richmond Enquirer, Gullah Jack, John Brown, New York, Southern States, Don Guillermo, Maroons of Surinam, Monday Gell, New Orleans, Old Montagu, William Garner, William Paul, Joseph Travis, Prophet Nat, San Domingo New!
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- History of the Maroons: Including the Expedition to Cuba and the Island of Jamaica (Library of West Indian Study) by R.C. Dallas on page 2, and Back Matter
- South Carolina: The Palmetto State (Guide to American States) by Janice Parker in Back Matter
- Parliamentary Debates: Vol 346, No 67 by Hansard in Back Matter
- The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion by Stephen B. Oates on 6 pages
- Black Rebellion: Five Slave Revolts by Thomas Wentworth Higginson on 6 pages
- The Amistad Revolt: Memory, Slavery, and the Politics of Identity in the United States and Sierra Leone by Iyunolu Folayan Osagie in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Insolent Slave by William E. Wiethoff in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Alienable Rights: The Exclusion of African Americans in a White Man's Land, 1619-2000 by Barry Sanders in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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