Maroon settlements were self-made spaces of freedom and resistance, not mere hideouts

Evidence

The remoteness of these self-contained pockets is a legacy of marronage, the escape to relatively inaccessible areas by black slaves where maroon communities formed, even thrived, often interacting and sometimes intermarrying with indigenous Indians, and from which resistance struggles against slaveholding colonizers and settlers were launched. These remote hideaways were made spaces of self-liberation, of freedom, of self-determination. They became, in short, spaces of self-proclaimed origination, self-making, selfassertion. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1077

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines marronage and maroon communities as spaces of active self-determination and resistance, not passive flight.
• STORYSTEM: A worldbuilding/narrative spark: maroon settlement as a template for communities that build themselves from self-proclaimed origination myths.
• XREF: connects to: Wealth accumulation enabled a freed slave to seed a self-governing maroon nation — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1375