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    1. Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African diaspora

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Ogundiran,Akinwumi (Editor)
    Format:
    Book, Edited
    Publication Date:
    2007
    Published:
    Bloomington: Indiana University Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    509 p., Presents a diverse, richly textured picture of Africans' experiences during the era of the Atlantic slave trade and offers the most comprehensive explanation of how African lives became entangled with the creation of the modern world. Includes Emmanuel Kofi Agorsah's "Scars of brutality : archaeology of the Maroons in the Caribbean."

    2. Free and Enslaved African Communities in Buff Bay, Jamaica: Daily Life, Resistance, and Kinship, 1750--1834

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Saunders,Paula Veronica (Author)
    Format:
    Dissertation/Thesis
    Publication Date:
    2009
    Published:
    Austin, TX: The University of Texas at Austin
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    319 p., Africans in Jamaica developed and exhibited a multiplicity of cultural identities and a complex set of relationships amongst themselves, reflective of their varied cultural, political, social, and physical origins. In the context of late-18th and early-19th century Buff Bay, Jamaica, most Africans were enslaved by whites to serve as laborers on plantations. However, a smaller group of Africans emerged from enslavement on plantations to form their own autonomous Maroon communities, alongside the plantation context and within the system of slavery. These two groups, enslaved Africans and Maroons, had a very complex set of relationship and identities that were fluid and constantly negotiated within the Jamaican slave society that was in turn hostile to both groups.

    3. Predicting Maroon Refuge Locations

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Carper,R. G. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2008
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Current Anthropology
    Journal Title Details:
    49(3) : 359
    Notes:
    The article reports on archaeologists search for archaeological sites of the Maroons, runaway slaves of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in West Indies. Archaeologists claim that Maroons have the ability to become invisible. The efficacy of their tactic has made them elusive to slavery. It states that the constant threat of recapture and castigation on the island of Saint Croix led them to hide in remote, defensible spots that were hard to see. Moreover, archaeologists face difficulties in predicting the locations of the Maroons because they are do not leave any evidence of their presence.