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The Rights of the Maroons in the Emerging Ganja Industry in Jamaica

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This article examines the rights of the Maroons in Jamaica in the emerging
ganja industry, based on national, regional, and international law. It
assesses their rights in the context of the land rights of indigenous peoples
and examines how these rights have been applied to marijuana policies
concerning indigenous peoples in the United States and Canada, and the
Rastafari community in Jamaica. Finally, it views the indigenous rightsbased
internationalist approach taken by the Charles Town Maroons as a

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Mired Memory Marronage in The Great Dismal Swamp

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For most antebellum observers, the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia
figured as a geography ripe for colonialisation, either economically as
farmland or space for development, or creatively as a haunted and
mysterious wilderness. But the swamp was more than just a geography to
be exploited for profit by powerful white planters; it was also a space of
interaction between slave society and a community of self-freed people of
colour. As scholars have increasingly noted, the swamp provided a sort of

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