Abstract
Historical archaeologists in the U.S. have been interested in resistance among enslaved African diasporans for several decades. Marronage has often been noted as being a forceful and powerful example of captive resistance in these discussions. Generally, our understandings of U.S. marronage have been shaped by perceptions of the process that severely downplay its social, identificatory, cultural, and politicoeconomic impacts. Equally important, national academic and public discourses have long misinterpreted relevant phenomena, such as the Underground Railroad, in ways that undermine the realization of the expansiveness, historical gravity, and African diasporic roots of marronage in the U.S. There is thus a need for a perspective on the phenomenon of marronage in the U.S that accurately recognizes its origins, scope, scale, and complexity. In establishing the basis for this more inclusive marronage perspective, attention will turn to developing a preliminary archaeological model for the recovery of information about marronage in a variety of disparate site contexts.
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Sayers, D.O. Marronage Perspective for Historical Archaeology in the United States. Hist Arch 46, 135–161 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03376882
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