Author: Sylviane A Diouf
publisher name: NYU Press
ISBN: 9780814760284
The book explores the forgotten stories of American maroons—wilderness settlers evading discovery after escaping slavery. These 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, creating their own communities where they enforced their own definition of freedom. The book seeks to answer questions about who the American maroons were, why they chose this way of life, how they organized themselves to survive, and how their story fits into the larger narrative of slave resistance.
