A Sea of Caribbean Islands
Maritime Maroons in the Greater Caribbean
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9334528 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kevin Dawson (The London College, corresponding author), Kenneth A Dawson (0000-0002-0568-6588, The London College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 428-448 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Slavery and Abolition (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0144-039X • E-ISSN: 1743-9523 |
| Publisher | Frank Cass & Co (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0144039x.2021.1927509 |
| OpenAlex | W3195944437 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
This article considers how maritime maroons used Atlantic networks of communication to determine which overseas locations to escape to, relying on African maritime techniques and skills as well as understanding of tropical wind patterns to escape using African-style dugout canoes, paddleboards/surfboards, and their swimming bodies to redefine their lives. Elaborating on the intellectual frameworks of Julius Scott and Epeli Hau‘ofa, this article also examines how captives’ layered African cultural, spiritual, and political meanings onto the ‘Greater Caribbean’ to transform it into a ‘sea of islands’, providing belonging and hope to captives’ exploited lives. Cultural understandings of the Caribbean and surrounding continents and African maritime expertise enabled maritime maroons to use seas to connect them to distant opportunities
Caribbean art · Caribbean island · Caribbean literature · Caribbean region · Ethnology · Geography · Latin Americans · Political science · Anthropology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Ecology · Geology · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Maritime Security and History · Oceanography
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |