Alabi's World

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  • Alabi's World Book Detail

  • Author : Richard Price
  • Release Date : 1990-06
  • Publisher : JHU Press
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 480
  • ISBN 13 : 9780801839566
  • File Size : 64,64 MB

Alabi's World by Richard Price PDF Summary

Book Description: 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.

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