Slavery's Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons
Sylviane A. Diouf
May 2022 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Chanté McCormick
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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. 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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Keeth West
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June 24, 2022
Very informative book on the history of the american maroons. I definitely enjoyed the narrator and great historical information given within these contexts. I highly recommend anybody who wants more information to pick up this book it's definitely worth the price and time thank you.
About the author
Sylviane A. Diouf is an award-winning historian of the African Diaspora. She is the author of Slavery's Exiles, Servants of Allah, and Dreams of Africa in Alabama. Diouf is a Curator at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library.
Chante McCormick is a Los Angeles-based actress and AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator who holds a Bachelor of Science degree in speech from Northwestern University's famed theater department. She is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA and Actors Equity Association.
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