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100 1 $aDiouf, Sylviane A.$q(Sylviane Anna),$d1952-
245 10 $aSlavery's exiles :$bthe story of the American Maroons /$cSylviane A. Diouf.
264 1 $aNew York :$bNew York University Press,$c[2014]
300 $ax, 393 pages, 13 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"Over more than two centuries men, women, and children escaped from slavery to make the Southern wilderness their home. They hid in the mountains of Virginia and the low swamps of South Carolina; they stayed in the neighborhood or paddled their way to secluded places; they buried themselves underground or built comfortable settlements. Known as maroons, they lived on their own or set up communities in swamps or other areas where they were not likely to be discovered. Although well-known, feared, celebrated or demonized at the time, the maroons whose stories are the subject of this book have been forgotten, overlooked by academic research that has focused on the Caribbean and Latin America. Who the American maroons were, what led them to choose this way of life over alternatives, what forms of marronage they created, what their individual and collective lives were like, how they organized themselves to survive, and how their particular story fits into the larger narrative of slave resistance are questions that this book seeks to answer. To survive, the American maroons reinvented themselves, defied slave society, enforced their own definition of freedom and dared create their own alternative to what the country had delineated as being black men and women's proper place. Audacious, self-confident, autonomous, sometimes self-sufficient, always self-governing; their very existence was a repudiation of the basic tenets of slavery. Sylviane A. Diouf is an award-winning historian specializing in the history of the African Diaspora, African Muslims, the slave trade and slavery. She is the author of Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas (NYU Press, 2013) and Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America, and the editor of Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies. "--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 357-373) and index.
505 0 $aThe 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.
650 0 $aMaroons$zSouthern States$xHistory.
650 0 $aFugitive slaves$zSouthern States$xHistory.
651 0 $aSouthern States$xRace relations$xHistory.
650 7 $aHISTORY / United States / General.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies.$2bisacsh
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
650 7 $aFugitive slaves.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00935940
650 7 $aMaroons.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01010400
650 7 $aRace relations.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01086509
651 7 $aSouthern States.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01244550
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