Maroon Geographies

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ID23739201
AuthorsAlex A Moulton (0000-0001-8768-8503, Hunter College, corresponding author)
Year2025
Pages1-7
Publication date2025-09-28
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueInternational Encyclopedia of Geography (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/9781118786352.wbieg2179
OpenAlexW4414587828
ISBN9781118786352
LanguageEN
References cited29

In the world of Atlantic slavery and colonialism, the term “Maroon” became a descriptor of self‐liberated people. While the term is most used to refer to Black people who freed themselves from servitude through flight to isolated geographies, the Indigenous Taino people of Hispaniola were among the earliest maroons. Through their flight from slavery, their establishment of autonomous communities, and resistance to colonial authorities, maroons recontoured the landscape of race, slavery, and freedom from Colombia to Canada, and from Belize to Barbados. In the process, maroons created symbolic and concrete geographies that illustrate Black and Indigenous geographical agency and knowledge. We can look to the experience of the Maroons to gain insight into the sense of place that subaltern people develop as part of their experience of racial‐capitalist development and anticolonial and antiracist struggle.

Agency (philosophy) · Colonialism · Indigenous · Maroon · Race (biology) · Resistance (ecology) · Subaltern · African history and culture studies · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories

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