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Slavery's Exiles - The Story of the American Maroons (Hardcover, New)
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Slavery's Exiles - The Story of the American Maroons (Hardcover, New)
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The forgotten stories of America maroons-wilderness settlers
evading discovery after escaping slavery 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.
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