Over more than two centuries men, women, and children escaped from slavery to make the Southern wilderness their home. They hid in the mountains of Virginia and the low swamps of South Carolina they stayed in the neighborhood or paddled their way to secluded places they buried themselves underground or built comfortable settlements. Known as maroons, they lived on their own or set up communities in swamps or other areas where they were not likely to be discovered.Although wellknown, feared, celebrated or demonized at the time, the maroons whose stories are the subject of this book have been forgotten, overlooked by academic research that has focused on the Caribbean and Latin America. Who the American maroons were, what led them to choose this way of life over alternatives, what forms of marronage they created, what their individual and collective lives were like, how they organized themselves to survive, and how their particular story fits into the larger narrative of slave resistance are questions that this book seeks to answer. To survive, the American maroons reinvented themselves, defied slave society, enforced their own definition of freedom and dared create their own alternative to what the country had delineated as being black men and womens proper place. Audacious, selfconfident, autonomous, sometimes selfsufficient, always selfgoverning their very existence was a repudiation of the basic tenets of slavery.

Binding: Paperback;416 pages; Publisher: NYU Press - IPS; Classification: HBJK; Weight: 716 g; Dimensions: 156 x 230 x 28

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