The Resource Slavery's exiles : the story of the American Maroons, Sylviane A. Diouf
Slavery's exiles : the story of the American Maroons, Sylviane A. Diouf
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- Summary
- "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. "--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- x, 393 pages, 13 unnumbered pages of plates
- Contents
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- The development of Maroonage in the South
- African Maroons
- Borderland Maroons
- Daily life at the Borderlands
- Hinterland Maroons
- The Maroons of Bas du Fleuve, Louisiana: From the Borderlands to the Hinterlands
- The Maroons of Belleisle and Bear Creek
- The great dismal swamp
- The Maroon bandits
- Maroons, conspiracies, and uprisings
- Out of the wilds
- Isbn
- 9780814724378
- Label
- Slavery's exiles : the story of the American Maroons
- Title
- Slavery's exiles
- Title remainder
- the story of the American Maroons
- Statement of responsibility
- Sylviane A. Diouf
- Title variation
- Slaverys exiles
- Title variation remainder
- the story of the American Maroons
- Subject
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- trueAfrican Americans -- History
- trueFugitive slaves -- Southern States -- History
- HISTORY / United States / General
- History
- trueHistory writing -- United States -- African American | Enslavement
- Maroons
- Maroons -- Southern States -- History
- Race relations
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
- trueSlavery -- United States
- Southern States
- trueSouthern States -- Race relations | History
- Southern States -- Race relations | History
- Fugitive slaves
- trueFugitive slaves
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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. "--
- Summary
- 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 questionsthat this book seeks to answer
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- 10262210
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1952-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Diouf, Sylviane A.
- Dewey number
- 305.800975
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E450
- LC item number
- .D56 2014
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- Maroons
- Fugitive slaves
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- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
- Fugitive slaves
- Maroons
- Race relations
- Southern States
- Southern States
- Target audience
- adult
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- the story of the American Maroons
- Label
- Slavery's exiles : the story of the American Maroons, Sylviane A. Diouf
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-373) and index
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- text
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- rdacontent
- Contents
- The development of Maroonage in the South -- African Maroons -- Borderland Maroons -- Daily life at the Borderlands -- Hinterland Maroons -- The Maroons of Bas du Fleuve, Louisiana: From the Borderlands to the Hinterlands -- The Maroons of Belleisle and Bear Creek -- The great dismal swamp -- The Maroon bandits -- Maroons, conspiracies, and uprisings -- Out of the wilds
- Control code
- 20174031
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- x, 393 pages, 13 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780814724378
- Isbn Type
- (hbk. : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2013029821
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- unmediated
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- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)ocn844308829
- (OCoLC)844308829
- Label
- Slavery's exiles : the story of the American Maroons, Sylviane A. Diouf
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-373) and index
- Carrier category
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- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
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- Contents
- The development of Maroonage in the South -- African Maroons -- Borderland Maroons -- Daily life at the Borderlands -- Hinterland Maroons -- The Maroons of Bas du Fleuve, Louisiana: From the Borderlands to the Hinterlands -- The Maroons of Belleisle and Bear Creek -- The great dismal swamp -- The Maroon bandits -- Maroons, conspiracies, and uprisings -- Out of the wilds
- Control code
- 20174031
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- x, 393 pages, 13 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780814724378
- Isbn Type
- (hbk. : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2013029821
- Media category
- unmediated
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- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)ocn844308829
- (OCoLC)844308829
Subject
- trueAfrican Americans -- History
- trueFugitive slaves -- Southern States -- History
- HISTORY / United States / General
- History
- trueHistory writing -- United States -- African American | Enslavement
- Maroons
- Maroons -- Southern States -- History
- Race relations
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
- trueSlavery -- United States
- Southern States
- trueSouthern States -- Race relations | History
- Southern States -- Race relations | History
- Fugitive slaves
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