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Marronage
Kalie Dutra
Created on April 2, 2023
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Maroon Communities
Exploring the Maroon Landscape
Defining Marronage
Life on the Ground
What did marronage do for enslaved people? For enslavers?
According to Diouf, what is marronage?
What's the difference between marronge and running away/self-liberation?
What was the Jamaican Maroon War?
What words does Diouf want to move away from and why?
What was life like in the borderlands?
What was life like in the hinterlands?
Briefly describe the difference between the hinterland and the borderland maroon communities.
Change terminology to what?
Why redefine the terminology?
What is Marronage?
To create a broader understanding of marronage that focuses on the wilderness, secrecy, and self-determination as the acting paramters. To create a distinction between maroons and runnaways/truants.
Maroon Landscape Borderland Hinterland
Marronage was an act of self-liberation in which previously enslaved people co-created communities in the wilderness and on the outskirts of society.
What Was the Borderland?
What Was the Hinterland?
Maroon Communities
Researched in the Americas