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Freedom as Marronage Freedom as Marronage Neil RobeRts the University of Chicago Press Chicago and london Neil Roberts is associate professor of Africana studies and a faculty affiliate in political science at Williams College. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London © 2015 by The University of Chicago All rights reserved. Published 2015. Printed in the United States of America 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 1 2 3 4 5 ISBN- 13: 978- 0- 226- 12746- 0 (cloth) ISBN- 13: 978- 0- 226- 20104- 7 (paper) ISBN- 13: 978- 0- 226- 20118- 4 (e- book) DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226201184.001.0001 Jacket illustration: LeRoy Clarke, A Prophetic Flaming Forest, oil on canvas, 2003. Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Roberts, Neil, 1976– author. Freedom as marronage / Neil Roberts. pages ; cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978- 0- 226- 12746- 0 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978- 0- 226- 20104- 7 (pbk : alk. paper) — ISBN 978- 0- 226- 20118- 4 (e- book) 1. Maroons. 2. Fugitive slaves—Caribbean Area. 3. Liberty. I. Title. F2191.B55R62 2015 323.1196'0729—dc23 2014020609 o This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48– 1992 (Permanence of Paper). For Karima and Kofi time would pass, old empires would fall and new ones take their place, the relations of countries and the relations of classes had to change, before i discovered that it is not quality of goods and utility which matter, but movement; not where you are or what you have, but where you have come from, where you are going and the rate at which you are getting there. — c. l. r. james, Beyond a Boundary CoNteNts Acknowledgments / xi Part I: On Slavery, agency, and FreedOm / 1 introduction / 3 oNe / the Disavowal of slave Agency / 27 Part II: Slave theOrIStS OF FreedOm / 51 tWo / Comparative Freedom and the Flight from slavery / 53 thRee / sovereign Marronage and its others / 89 FoUR / sociogenic Marronage in a slave Revolution / 113 Part III: FreedOm aS marrOnage In late mOdernIty / 139 Five / Marronage between Past and Future / 141 Afterword: Why Marronage still Matters / 173 Notes / 183 Bibliography / 219 Index / 239
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