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 well-known, 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 women's proper place.
Audacious, self-confident, autonomous, sometimes self-sufficient,
always self-governing; their very existence was a repudiation of
the basic tenets of slavery. Sylviane A. Diouf is an award-winning
historian specializing in the history of the African Diaspora,
African Muslims, the slave trade and slavery. She is the author of
Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas (NYU
Press, 2013) and Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship
Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America, and
the editor of Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies.
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