Maroon societies were comprised of fugitive slaves and their descendants who occupied wilderness areas of the Americas in communities where they avoided discovery by soldiers or capture by slave hunters. Maroons understood intimately the brutality of slavery and did everything possible to avoid association with a regime they equated with servility and death. In this Black History Month Lecture, Professor Chopra will present research for her upcoming book that examines the resilience of Maroons exported to Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone. She is the author of Unnatural Rebellion: Loyalists in New York City During the Revolution, and Choosing Sides: Loyalists in Revolutionary America.
2/28/17