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Author Price, Richard, 1941-

Title Alabi's world / Richard Price.

Publication Info. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1990]
©1990

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  F2431.S27 A457 1990    Available  ---  Gift of Dr. Brooke B. Hunter
Description xx, 444 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Series Johns Hopkins studies in Atlantic history and culture
Johns Hopkins studies in Atlantic history and culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-444).
Awards American Historical Association Albert A. Beveridge Award, 1991.
Summary In the early 18th century, the Dutch colony of Suriname was the envy of all others in the Americas. There, seven hundred Europeans lived off the labor of over four thousand enslaved Africans. Owned by men hell-bent for quick prosperity, the rich plantations on the Suriname river became known for their heights of planter comfort and opulence--and for their depths of slave misery. Slaves who tried to escape were hunted by the planter militia. If found they were publicly tortured. Gradually slaves began to form outlaw communities until nearly one out of every ten Africans in Suriname was helping to build rebel villages in the jungle. This book relates the history of a nation founded by escaped slaves deep in the Latin American rain forest. It tells of their battles for independence, their uneasy truce with the colonial government, and the attempt of their leader, Alabi, to reconcile his people with white law and a white God.
Language English.
Provenance Gift of Dr. Brooke B. Hunter
Subject Alabi.
Alabi.
Saramacca (Surinamese people) -- Biography.
Saramacca (Surinamese people)
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Saramacca (Surinamese people) -- History -- Sources.
History.
Genre/Form Sources.
Subject Slavery -- Suriname -- History -- Sources.
Slavery.
Suriname.
Netherlands -- Colonies -- America -- Administration.
Netherlands.
Colonies.
America.
Administration.
Suriname -- Biography.
Colonies -- Administration.
Netherlandish colonies.
Genre/Form History.
Biographies.
Other Form: Online version: Price, Richard, 1941- Alabi's world. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1990 (OCoLC)555521454
Online version: Price, Richard, 1941- Alabi's world. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1990 (OCoLC)607648146
ISBN 0801838622 (alkaline paper)
0801839564 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780801839566 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780801838620 (alkaline paper)