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They still are, in the mountains of Thailand, Laos, Burma, thereabouts. James Scott has a book about them (The Art of Not Being Governed, maybe?)
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@DrDanMarshall @Radical_EgoCom If marronage is understood to mean escaping unwanted bondage, women escaping abusive marriages. Even American voters escaping a second Trump presidency in 2020. @northernlights @Radical_EgoCom In Haiti, grande marronage meant running away from slavery to a community of fellow runaways in an "illegible" territory, like swamps or mountains. Similar things happened in the antebellum US, but I don't know of any examples with the same "flavor" post-bellum. Slavers generally figured anybody who wanted freedom *that* bad was a hothead, good riddance. @northernlights @Radical_EgoCom There were lesser forms of marronage, like urban marronage. A big city can be almost as illegible as swamps and hills, and when being homeless in the big city is better than whatever hell you have going on at home... I'm just wondering why grande marronage is no longer on the table here in the US. Has the gov't gotten better at "reading" swamps, or are there fewer lives worse than shacking up in a swamp? @northernlights @Radical_EgoCom Some women escaping abusive relationships might wind up homeless, but I would hope most are housed and therefore legible to the gov't. Ideally, it would just be their exes they have to stay illegible from. |
@northernlights @Radical_EgoCom I've been wondering where the maroons have gotten off to, if marronage is still necessary after the end of formal slavery. I suppose a lot of gay kids escaping their parents could be seen as practicing a form of urban marronage. And homelessness in general I suppose. Any other forms of marronage still practiced in the US that you know of?