gallows, slavery, ect

[Ted Samsel]

C sez: 
> 
> There was a little leverage resulting from the fact that most slaves, 
> particularly the ones on the Caribbean islands, had nowhere to escape 
> to. The ones sent to sugar plantations in Brazil probably did escape 
> to form communities in the jungle or along the extensive coastline, 
> but they had to be mighty ambitious, as it is a somewhat hostile 
> terrain to traverse.

You forgot the Maroon Rebellion in Jamaica. They still hold forth
in the Cockpit Country/Akompong, a rugged karstic area full of mogotes
and caves.
 
And the gone-jungli communities in NE Brazil are called quilombos.

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