Maroons Within the Present Limits of the United States

Aptheker, Herbert

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“…Many maroon communities-intralimital settlements by this model-are known to have fluoresced, in South Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and, of course, Virginia and North Carolina (see Aptheker, 1993;Genovese, 1979). Significantly, most scholars have concurred that the Great Dismal Swamp was home to the largest population of maroons in North America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with thousands of individuals taking part over that span (e.g., Aptheker, 1996;Bogger, 1982;Franklin and Schweninger, 1999, p. 86;Frey, 1991;Genovese, 1979, pp. 68-69;Morgan, 1979;Schweninger, 2002).…”

Section: African and African-american Maroons 1700-1865mentioning

confidence: 96%

“…These swamp-margin groups may have been most responsible for the known maroon raids and marauding excursions into the swamp-adjacent countryside (Aptheker, 1996;Bogger, 1982).…”

Section: African and African-american Maroons 1700-1865mentioning

confidence: 97%

“…With variations depending on the specific time, thousands of maroons fled outside the political economy of slavery to wage labor systems in the northern areas and Canada (e.g., the so-called Underground Railroad), Mexico, and to Spanish-controlled Florida (Buckmaster, 1993;Blockson, 1987;Giddings, 1858;Grant, 2002;Mulroy, 1993;Weik, 2002). Also, maroons fled to Native American-controlled regions beyond the reaches of the slavery system, particularly to the west (Aptheker, 1996).…”

Section: African and African-american Maroons 1700-1865mentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Political Economy of Exile in the Great Dismal Swamp

Sayers

Burke

Henry

2007

Int J Histor Archaeol

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Section: African and African-american Maroons 1700-1865mentioning

confidence: 96%

“…These swamp-margin groups may have been most responsible for the known maroon raids and marauding excursions into the swamp-adjacent countryside (Aptheker, 1996;Bogger, 1982).…”

Section: African and African-american Maroons 1700-1865mentioning

confidence: 97%

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The Political Economy of Exile in the Great Dismal Swamp

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Burke

Henry

2007

Int J Histor Archaeol

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“…429). Prior to 1822 when Florida officially became a U.S. territory, this frontier held the promise of emancipation for enslaved Blacks, as historians of the colonial period have discussed extensively (e.g., Aptheker, ; Corbett, ; Landers, ; Missall & Missall, ; Riordan, ; Schafer, ; Twyman, ). Its sheltering swamps acted as refuge and provided the backdrop for Black Seminole ethnogenesis .…”

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The vanishing Black Indian: Revisiting craniometry and historic collections

Geller

Stojanowksi

2016

American J Phys Anthropol

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Recent articles discussing the merits and weaknesses of comparative craniometry focus on methodological issues. In our biohistoric approach, we use the patterning of craniometric allocations across databases as a platform for discussing social race and its development during the 19th century, a process known as racialization. Here we propose that differences in repeatability for the Seminoles and Euro-American soldiers reflect this process and transformation of racialized identities during 19th century U.S. nation-building. In particular, notions of whiteness were and remain tightly controlled, while other racial categorizations were affected by legal, social, and political contexts that resulted in hybridity in lieu of boundedness.

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“…Piot 1999 on Kabre origins). At the other end of the trans-Atlantic system, refuge seeking by enslaved individuals and groups resulted in maroon settlements in the United States, Brazil, Surinam and elsewhere (Aptheker 1939;Kent 1965;Price 1983).…”

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Rethinking migration, ancient to future

Sanjek¹

2003

Global Networks

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Immigration as a framework in which to analyse the vast movements and interactions of people in the contemporary world tends to highlight recent movers and the legal apparatuses and ideologies of citizenship pertaining to them. Nation states, however, contain other, non-immigrant groups whose circumstances of arrival in many cases preceded nation states or a fully embordered globe, and who also need foregrounding if ethnocultural political sentiments and the deeper meanings of postmodern 'intermingling' are to be understood. Surveying a wide-ranging body of anthropological and historical studies of human migration and interaction over the past 150,000 years, a new synthetic framework is proposed. Contemporary nations all encompass diverse origins and arrivals that may be interpreted in terms of seven historically emergent and still ongoing processes: expansion, refuge-seeking, colonization, enforced transportation, trade diaspora, labour diaspora and emigration. Together they define the complex terrains upon which contemporary immigrants arrive.Rising tides in the movement of information, commodities and people characterize the contemporary world, and scholars have been vigorous in charting these proliferating forms of transnational circulation (: 2, 9) discerns 'a general rupture in the tenor of intersocietal relations [marking] the recent past (or the extended present)', and attributes this to, first, the impact of electronic media, and second, the pace and ubiquity of contemporary migration. Of the latter, he writes, 'few persons in the world today do not have a friend, relative, or co-worker who is not on the road to somewhere else or … coming back home' (Appadurai 1996: 4).By the year 2000 some 130 million human beings lived outside their nation of birth (Suarez-Orozco 2000). In social anthropology the dominant concept for investigating this massive intercourse of people has been immigration -the self-directed movement of individuals from one nation state to another (

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Maroons Within the Present Limits of the United States

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The Political Economy of Exile in the Great Dismal Swamp

The Political Economy of Exile in the Great Dismal Swamp

The vanishing Black Indian: Revisiting craniometry and historic collections

Rethinking migration, ancient to future

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