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Slavery's Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons
Sylviane A. Diouf
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| #914581 in Books | 2014-01-17 | 2014-01-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.02 x1.06 x5.98l,1.53 | File type: PDF | 403 pages||15 of 16 people found the following review helpful.| Answers the question, "who were America's maroons?"|By James Denny|In "Slavery's Exiles: The Story of American Maroons," author Sylviane A. Diouf probes the largely untold story of escaped slaves in the American South who were not runaways to southern cities, nor were they exiles to states in the North or Canada.
In her choice of and careful use of the term "maroo||"A curator at the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture reconstructs the lives of blacks who sought freedom and self-determination on the margins of an American slave society. Whether newly arrived from Africa or already accu
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.
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Slavery's Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons | Sylviane A. Diouf.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
