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008			130916s2014 nyuabf b 001 0 eng
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100	1		_aDiouf, Sylviane A. _q(Sylviane Anna), _d1952-
245	1	0	_aSlavery's exiles : _bthe story of the American Maroons / _cSylviane A. Diouf.
264		1	_aNew York : _bNew York University Press, _c2014.
300			_ax, 393 pages, 13 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations, maps ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 357-373) and index.
520			_a"For more than two centuries men, women, and children escaped from slavery and made 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 American maroons, whose stories are the subject of this book, have been forgotten, overlooked by academic research, which 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 to create their own alternative to what the country had delineated as being black men and women's proper place. The maroons were audacious, self-confident, autonomous, sometimes self-sufficient, and 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, notably, 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.
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
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