Alabi
Encyclopedia
Alabi was a leader of the Saramaccans, a Maroon
people in Suriname
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Maroon (people)
Maroons were runaway slaves in the West Indies, Central America, South America, and North America, who formed independent settlements together...
people in Suriname
Suriname
Suriname , officially the Republic of Suriname , is a country in northern South America. It borders French Guiana to the east, Guyana to the west, Brazil to the south, and on the north by the Atlantic Ocean. Suriname was a former colony of the British and of the Dutch, and was previously known as...
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External links
- Richard Price, 1990, Alabbi's world, The Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture, http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title_pages/1086.html