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Slaverys Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons Audiobook, by Sylviane A. Diouf Play Audiobook Sample

Slavery's Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons Audiobook

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Read By: Chanté McCormick Publisher: Tantor Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 9.00 hours at 1.5x Speed 6.75 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: May 2022 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781666188325

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

21

Longest Chapter Length:

57:46 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

19:02 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

38:57 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

3

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Publisher Description

The forgotten stories of America maroons—wilderness settlers evading discovery after escaping slavery

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.

Although well-known, feared, celebrated or demonized at the time, the maroons whose stories are the subject of this book have been forgotten, overlooked by academic research that 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. Audacious, self-confident, autonomous, sometimes self-sufficient, always self-governing; their very existence was a repudiation of the basic tenets of slavery.

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