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"Maroon activities and slave uprisings were the most militant form of black resistance to slavery, although historians have paid little attention to the history of maroons in the United States."
Unfortunately this is too true on many different aspects in the U.S. when it comes to things that are not white-centric.

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 "They had a special kind of freedom... their environment were away from white control unlike other black communities."

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 "They had a special kind of freedom... their environment were away from white control unlike other black communities."

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Regenia Poole

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"Maroons also lived underground in caves, some were six feet underground and some were bigger....the best option for them to live free with their children were underground."

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“I felt safer with the alligators than with the white man.

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They would rather be among the alligators then be among the White Man. It was safer in their eyes.

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This conversation shows me how we can almost never truly define freedom.

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-Maroon in the US.

-Large communities.

-When we look at the US we don’t see the Maroons. You would have Maroons that did different tasks like fishing. There is a distinction between slaves and Maroons. The most incredible thing to her are the Maroon in SC were living in caves that they have made. They dug into the ground and they lived there. They didn’t want people to know where they lived. They had family and friends living there. They had furniture and tubes that brought the smoke far away.
-Some of them lived in trees.
-Maroons did not want to fight. They wanted to be free and continue to be free as well.
-When thinking about Maroons it's very diverse.
-Maroon runaways stayed in the south.
-1.2 million slaves from the southeast (VA, Maryland, etc.) were sold down in the deep south.

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North wasn't the promise land it's made out to be. Maroons survived even without the assistant of the white government in Southern cities. Free from white overlords

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I thought the quote at the end was very powerful. Could you imagine being more afraid of another human being than a vicious animal? Crazy.

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Most runaways escaped to foreign cities, a lot in the South, and tried to pass as free people.

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They worked for free blacks sometimes, as they were a cheap source of labor.

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The Maroon way of life is much more diverse than it is publically made out to be.

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They would sometimes sacrifice themselves for the betterment of the group.

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Produced massively war-like communities. Do they exist in a perpetual state of combativeness (even now) because of the opposition of the majority, or is it inherent in the warrior-blood of their ancestors?

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Those who lived in SC left and went back to GA. They built a beautiful civilization and made sure outsiders couldn’t easily access their sanctuary, by putting tree trunks in their lakes. They honestly wanted to live free, and be safe.

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In South Carolina, a group of Maroons, usually 70-80, were the only group who resembled that carribean feel.

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Maroons are typically big communities in Jamaica and other places. There were no maroons in the U.S. Hinta land Maroons lived far away in secluded places that are hard to get too. Maroons can interconnect with each other. There is a lot of interaction with each other. People do risk it to talk to other people on the plantation to help each other. Some people were living in man made caves and they were hidden.

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the children were raised underground because the parents thought it was better for the children to live that way rather then having to be slaves

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Living in trees: reinforcing animal/monkey stereotype or exemplifying survival of a powerful people?

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Some of the Maroons lived in trees and man-made caves.

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Maroons in the United States

Some Maroons lived in trees. There are some that lived in caves located in Alabama, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
Children all over the United States were prone to be raised under ground, and that was better for the parents than to be enslaved. The Maroon experience is much more diverse opposed to what we thought. Between 1790s and 18i65 there was domestic slave trade occurring;

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* There were connections between maroons and people who were still enslaved. Also connections between farm and cities. Maroons were not always large communities, but small ones as well.
* Maroons located in the Carolinas, lived in caves. There were families full of children and friends. Had methods of construction to stay hidden. Children all over the United States were raised under ground, some until emancipation. Parents knew they were safer underground than out in the world.
* Maroons did not want to fight, but wanted to leave free. Idea was to disappear and re-locate themselves. The official’s goals were to capture the Maroon leaders and murder them in public, and then return their followers to their “owners.”
When Maroons escaped, it really messed with the official’s plans.
* Maroons were cheap source of labor. Some worked for free blacks, and sometimes, slave owners.
* Domestic slave trade: 1.2 million AFAMs were sold to the Deep South. Families were completely dislocated.
* One major reason people became Maroons, was to reunite with their families after being dislocated. Wanted to stay near loved ones and have some sort of control over their own life.
* Vast majority of runaways were from Virginia.
* Undergroud rail road did not go into the South, worked in the North.
* Wanted a new life for themselves. Completely different life from anyone in the country.
* Lived in forest

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The people would walk at night, to the cities,to meet their families and friends to their houses and enjoy each others company. The maroons would share with each other as well such as the food that they caught and captured. Maroons were very interesting, they lived in caves, that they made. They also lived in trees. They were true natures people. They were also family oriented; collectivists at its best.

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-the border land Maroon (live at the border of the cities) and the inner land Maroon (they lived in more excluded land- live on there own)
-to see the interaction between both groups is really interesting. There was a lot of interaction. Border land Maroon's would walk at night to the cities and plantations and would get what they needed. They would take back from the slave owners what they felt was rightfully there's. They took a lot of risk in getting food and information. Then you would have inner land Maroons who would hunt and fish.
-those who lived at the border lands of plantations literally disappeared from the face of the earth. Some lived on tree trunks, and others lived in caves. They would disguise themselves and become a part of the environment. They had a very elaborate type of construction. For example, a family lived in VA and they had 15 children. Children all over the United States lived underground. For the parents it was better for the children to live that way, then in slavery.
-Maroons did not want to fight, they wanted to live free and continue to live free.
-Authorities had a goal and that was to dismantle Maroon communities, kill the leaders, and return them back to there owners
-Trial records of Maroons in Louisiana give a lot of information of the running of Maroons and what they were doing *this information is crucial because the Maroons were people who did not want to be found nor known so they did not want to leave records
-we have to rethink the Maroon experience because it is much more diverse than what we imagine.
-some Maroons worked for free blacks because they were a cheap source of labor
-why did people become Maroons? because most run away slaves went to northern cities and some would go to southern cities and pose to have freedom. In the 1790s the domestic slave trade was created. Slaves from the north were sold to the deep south and families were completely scattered and dislocated.
-Many would run away and try to find there families. They would live in the woods. - the reunification of families was one of the main reasons.
-if you lived as a run away in northern cities you were still under white authority & when you were a Maroon you were living under your own rule.

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- To hear about the strong relationship between the maroons and those that were still enslaved is very interesting. It shows how strong the bond was between both groups
- I couldn’t imagine being raised in a cave with 14 of my other siblings. This just shows u how they were willing to drastically change there lives just to escape slavery.

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-Had people leave as Maroons and the borders of places and farms really closed, in areas that were very secluded it was more difficult to get there. (borderland Maroons v inner land Maroons)
-They would walk places at night to see different things and different people, and to get the things they needed, they took back the things they believed to be theirs.
- They would fish and hunt, exchanging what they had with others on the plantation or in the city, allowed for communication to from strong links with others
-Some lived in the trunks of trees or caverns, a lot lived in caves that they had made in the ground (even here in SC)
-(I question the stability of a natural cave, I really question the stability of a man made one. Did any of these people ever die in a collapse of their self made cave?
-They had furniture and stoves in the cave, pipes for the stoves lead far away to keep their location rather unknown
-They didn't want to fight, they wanted to be free. They had to resort to Guerilla Tactics. Dissappear, regroup, and continue.

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I think that it is very interesting that some Maroons felt that living underground for their whole lives - until emancipation, thought that it was better than living enslaved. It shows me that they valued their freedom, even if they weren’t truly free. While they weren’t physically enslaved by slave owners, they were in a bondage that kept them in fear. I also think it may have been interesting to see how Maroons functioned in the world after emancipation.

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Maroon community vs. the ghetto.
Zanzi

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Maroon is ty