Gregory's Server@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.
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@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 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?