Your time is done now, Papillote Press, Dominica

Your Time is Done Now

Slavery, Resistance and Defeat: the Maroon Trials of Dominica (1813-1814)
edited by Polly Pattullo, with an introduction by Bernard Wiltshire
£9.99

ISBN

9780957118775

Published

2015

 

Format

Paperback
also an eBook

ISBN

9780957118775

 

Published

2015

 

Format

Paperback
also an eBook

When the Maroons of Dominica challenged the British Empire 200 years ago, they were captured and put on trial. Here, for the first time, you can read their evidence and, unusually, hear their voices — in resistance and defeat.

Your Time Is Done Now tells the story of Dominica’s Maroons through the transcripts of trials held in 1813 and 1814 at the end of the Second Maroon War. Using the evidence to explain how the Maroons waged war against slave society, the book reveals fascinating details about how they survived in the forest and of their relationships with their allies, the enslaved on the plantations. It also, again through the historical record, examines the key role of the British governor, George Ainslie, who succeeded in suppressing the Maroons, and how the Colonial Office in London reacted to his punitive conduct.

Compiled and edited by Polly Pattullo, the publisher of Papillote Press, with an introduction by Bernard Wiltshire, a former attorney-general of Dominica, Your Time Is Done Now is an important book.

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What they say

We know far too little of the Maroons, and of their attempt to carve out a free existence for themselves in a dark and oppressive time. It’s good to have this new window onto that past in this book, and to be reminded again of the cruelty of Caribbean slavery and the bravery of those who tried to escape it.”
– Adam Hochschild
This is a very valuable book..the documents allow us to hear the voices of the enslaved. They also provide an important insight into the brutality of the white authorities in suppressing the Maroons.”
– Professor Gad Heuman, editor of ‘Slavery & Abolition’

An important contribution to the study of marronage and slave resistance in the Caribbean, revealing that the movement was strong in rugged Dominica as it was in the more widely known case of Jamaica.”
– Lennox Honychurch, author of In the Forests of Freedom: the Fighting Maroons of Dominica

Pattullo’s book provides a powerful insight into the lives of the Maroons in Dominica by reporting their words, actions and way of life….[She[ offers a unique experience by allowing the voices of the enslaved people and those who stood against colonial oppression by running away and creating free communities in the mountains to be heard. This remarkable work paves the way for further research about the Maroons in the Caribbean whether they come from the French, English or Spanish speaking worlds, the impact they may have had on the creation of Blackness throughout the African diaspora and the ties the maroons may have maintained between neighboring islands.
– Freddy Marcin, Revue Lisa, e-journal

We know far too little of the Maroons, and of their attempt to carve out a free existence for themselves in a dark and oppressive time. It’s good to have this new window onto that past in this book, and to be reminded again of the cruelty of Caribbean slavery and the bravery of those who tried to escape it.”
– Adam Hochschild
This is a very valuable book..the documents allow us to hear the voices of the enslaved. They also provide an important insight into the brutality of the white authorities in suppressing the Maroons.”
– Professor Gad Heuman, editor of ‘Slavery & Abolition’

An important contribution to the study of marronage and slave resistance in the Caribbean, revealing that the movement was strong in rugged Dominica as it was in the more widely known case of Jamaica.”
– Lennox Honychurch, author of ‘In the Forests of Freedom: the Fighting Maroons of Dominica

Pattullo’s book provides a powerful insight into the lives of the Maroons in Dominica by reporting their words, actions and way of life….[She[ offers a unique experience by allowing the voices of the enslaved people and those who stood against colonial oppression by running away and creating free communities in the mountains to be heard. This remarkable work paves the way for further research about the Maroons in the Caribbean whether they come from the French, English or Spanish speaking worlds, the impact they may have had on the creation of Blackness throughout the African diaspora and the ties the maroons may have maintained between neighboring islands.
– Freddy Macin, Revue Lisa, e-journal

about the author

Polly Pattullo

Publisher Polly Pattullo has written widely about the Caribbean, and her books include “Last Resorts: the Cost of Tourism in the Caribbean”, a critical assessment of the economic, environmental and cultural impacts of tourism development in the region, and “Fire from the Mountain”, about the volcano crisis in Montserrat. As a journalist, she worked for two newspapers: the Observer and later the Guardian newspaper in London.

Polly Pattullo

Publisher Polly Pattullo has written widely about the Caribbean, and her books include “Last Resorts: the Cost of Tourism in the Caribbean”, a critical assessment of the economic, environmental and cultural impacts of tourism development in the region, and “Fire from the Mountain”, about the volcano crisis in Montserrat. As a journalist, she worked for two newspapers: the Observer and later the Guardian newspaper in London.