The Maroons (escaped slaves) of Jamaica are famous. Not so the Maroons of another Caribbean island – Dominica, also a former British colony. Dominica’s Maroons once controlled much of this wild and mountainous island but few details of their story of resistance and ultimate defeat have been known – until now. Written by Dominica’s leading historian, In the Forests of Freedom is a stirring account of how a displaced and enslaved people challenged the British empire in their struggle to create a free and self-sufficient society.
From the Africans who took refuge on the island in the 16th century, through the two brutal Maroon Wars in the last decades of slavery, to the building of a post-emancipation nation, In the Forests of Freedom takes the reader deep into the hinterland of the Dominica story.
About the author
Lennox Honychurch is a Dominican historian and anthropologist. He has published numerous books and academic papers on the archaeology and history of Dominica and the Caribbean. His doctorate in anthropology, from Oxford University, focussed on the period of contact and culture exchange between the indigenous Kalinago people of Dominica and the European and African arrivals in the Eastern Caribbean. He is the director of Island Heritage Initiatives, a consultancy and contracting company for restoration projects of heritage sites; most recently he was responsible for the restoration of Fort Shirley at the Cabrits National Park in Dominica.
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