Maroons of the Borderland
A suppressed history of what could be and what once was. This chapter invokes the historical Maroons—self-liberated Pan-African Americans who built autonomous communities during the 400+ years of slavery—and imagines modern equivalents. Restoring to collective memory how our ancestors exited the system and forged sovereignty, even if they had to carve it into the landscape of their oppression.
Photo credit:
Slave Hunt, Dismal Swamp, Virginia by Thomas Moran, 1862
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BONUS CONTENT:
Alias: Nyankipong Pickibu (Children of the Almighty in Twi), The Untamed, Wildlings, The Palenques from Spanish Colonies, Kromanti of Jamaica, Mocambos or Quilombos in Brazil, Los Cumbes of Venezuela, Mambises of Cuba, Ladeiras of Brazil, Louisiana Maroons, or Cimarrones, Liberators of Haiti. -
🧭Side Quest
- Chapter Fifteen of All the White Friends I Couldn’t Keep by Andre Henry. Andre Henry is a descendent of the Maroons, and Garvey-ites.
🧭 Side Quest - Don’t become the rat king
Dr. Claud Anderson on what happens when we let them put our history behind us
🧭 Side Quest
Maybe put on the song open armsby SZA ft Travis Scott, or know your worth by Khalid, Disclosure, Davido, and Tems;