Also known as: Richard Price, First-Time, First-Time: The Historical Vision of an African American People
Last updated: April 16, 2026
An ethnohistory showing how the Saramaka maroon people of Suriname preserved the memory of escape, war, and the 1762 peace as a living historical vision transmitted through oral tradition, territorial memory, and ritual. Price demonstrates that marronage, when it survives long enough, becomes pedagogy and political common sense rather than dead folklore — making the book a major comparative source for understanding how maroon memory functioned as a social institution, relevant to any analysis of Haitian marronage in the longer term.
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Richard Price. "First-Time: The Historical Vision of an African American People." Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983. Rasin.ai, https://rasin.ai/connections/sources/price-first-time. Accessed 2026-05-05.