In the Forests of Freedom
The Fighting Maroons of Dominica
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£9.99
9780993108662
2017
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History
This book will long stand as the definitive account of these Maroons whom the British considered, after those in Jamaica, the major menace to their plantation system. Dominica’s Maroons have finally found their chronicler."
– Richard Price, author of Maroon Societies
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In this detailed and brilliantly researched book, the Dominican historian Lennox Honychurch tells the enthralling and untold story of how the Maroons of Dominica challenged the colonial powers in a heroic struggle to create a free and self-sufficient society. Much has been written about the Maroons of Jamaica; little about the Maroons of Dominica. This book redresses this gap. In the Forests of Freedom takes the reader deep into the forested hinterland of Dominica to explore the political, social and economic importance of the Maroons.
The Maroons of Dominica: book trailer
"In the Forests of Freedom: the Fighting Maroons of Dominica" by Lennox Honychurch is the enthralling and untold story of how the Maroons — escaped slaves — of the Caribbean island of Dominica challenged the colonial powers in a heroic struggle to create a free and self-sufficient society.
Author
Lennox Honychurch is a Dominican historian and anthropologist. He has published numerous academic papers and books on the history of Dominica and the Caribbean region. He was awarded his PhD from the University of Oxford on the material culture of the Kalinago people of Dominica. He is an expert on all aspects of Dominica’s history and culture, and his book The Dominica Story was the first history of the island.
What They Say
The brave people who held out in Dominica’s mountain wilderness for generations against the military forces of two colonial empires have had their story well told at last. Their spirits can now be at rest."
– Adam Hochschild, Bury the Chains
With meticulous attention to detail, Lennox Honychurch’s new book tells the fascinating stories of these communities and offers accounts of both heroism and tragedy."
– New Books Network
As well as a valuable history of Afro-Atlantic slave custom and revolt, In the Forests of Freedom celebrates the beauty of rural Dominica… In Honychurch’s estimation, the ‘spirit of the Maroons’ continues today…”
– Read the full review in The Spectator Magazine.
Honychurch’s entrancing island narrative illumines wider issues of race and power, rule and resistance, slavery and freedom.
– David Lowenthal, History Today.
Read Q & A with Lennox Honychurch in the New York Review of Books about the devastation and aftermath of Hurricane Maria here.
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