A list of accounts of the Bois Caïman ceremony, compiled by Ian Baucom and Laurent Dubois at Duke University for their course "The Black Atlantic." Read: Early Accounts of Bois Caïman « The Black Atlantic
maroonage
BOOK: Nessler on Haitian Revolution and Santo Domingo
Graham T. Nessler, An Islandwide Struggle for Freedom: Revolution, Emancipation, and Reenslavement in Hispaniola, 1789-1809 (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2016). "Reinterpreting the Haitian Revolution as both an islandwide and a circum-Caribbean phenomenon, Graham Nessler examines the intertwined histories of Saint-Domingue, the French colony that became Haiti, and Santo Domingo, the Spanish … Continue reading BOOK: Nessler on Haitian Revolution and Santo Domingo
BOOK: Mauvois on Fugitive Slaves of Martinique
Bernard Mauvois, Les marrons de la mer: évasions d’esclaves de la Martinique vers les îles de la Caraïbe (1833-1848) (Karthala, 2017). "La mer entourant les colonies insulaires de la Caraïbe n’a jamais été une barrière et encore moins un obstacle insurmontable, mais au contraire une véritable voie vers les autres colonies. En 1833, alors que … Continue reading BOOK: Mauvois on Fugitive Slaves of Martinique
AUDIO: Flory, Regent, and Chivallon on Enslaved Resistance and Revolt
Céline Flory, Frédéric Regent, and Christine Chivallon discuss slave revolts and resistance with Emmanuel Laurentin. Listen: Esclavage : les révoltes et les résistances
VIDEO/FILM: Landscape and Power: Freedom and Slavery in the Great Dismal Swamp
Dan Sayers, Carolyn Finney, and more describe maroonage in the Dismal Swamp in this documentary: "This film, Landscape of Power: Freedom and Slavery in the Great Dismal Swamp summarizes the three-year archeological field study of the Great Dismal Swamp in southern Virginia and North Carolina, conducted by Prof. Daniel Sayers and his team through a … Continue reading VIDEO/FILM: Landscape and Power: Freedom and Slavery in the Great Dismal Swamp
VIDEO: Diouf on Slavery’s Exiles | New York Dub
Animation for Sylviane Diouf's Slavery's Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons: "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 … Continue reading VIDEO: Diouf on Slavery’s Exiles | New York Dub
AUDIO: The Great Dismal Swamp and African American Maorons
Dan Sayers, Sylviane Diouf, and others discuss maroonage in the Great Dismal Swamp: "...But hundreds of years ago, before the Civil War, the dangers of the swamp and its seeming impenetrability actually attracted people to it. The land was so untamed that horses and boats couldn’t enter, and the colonists who were filing into the … Continue reading AUDIO: The Great Dismal Swamp and African American Maorons
CHAPTER: Nelson on Runaway Slave Ads in Canada
Charmaine A. Nelson, “‘Ran Away from Her Master...a Negroe Girl Named Thursday:’ Examining Evidence of Punishment, Isolation, and Trauma in Nova Scotia and Quebec Fugitive Slave Advertisements.” In Legal Violence and the Limits of the Law: Cruel and Unusual, edited by Amy Swiffen and Joshua Nichols. Routledge, 2017. Nelson writes: "While much is known about … Continue reading CHAPTER: Nelson on Runaway Slave Ads in Canada
BLOGROLL: In Search of the Slave Who Defied George Washington – @NYTimes
NYT covers Erica Armstrong Dunbar's new book on Ona Judge : "The costumed characters at George Washington’s gracious estate here are used to handling all manner of awkward queries, whether about 18th-century privies or the first president’s teeth. So when a visitor recently asked an African-American re-enactor in a full skirt and head scarf if … Continue reading BLOGROLL: In Search of the Slave Who Defied George Washington – @NYTimes
Eliza on the Run
New Orleans Daily Picayune, April 23, 1844: https://twitter.com/alondra/status/858994079241310208
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