Marronage took many forms, from staying near plantations to fleeing to towns

Evidence

The practice of marronage—running away from the plantations—was as old as slavery itself. In Saint-Domingue it took many forms. Africans brought into the colony by slavers, refusing their condition as property, often ran away soon after their arrival. They were prone to recapture because they lacked knowledge of the geography of the island and connections who could help them hide, although some residents did help them, sometimes by telling them the way to Spanish Santo Domingo. Plantation slaves sometimes left the direct supervision of the managers but remained nearby. The organization of plantations, with cultivated land, fields for grazing, provision grounds, and slave quarters scattered in different locations, facilitated this evasion. Some maroons stayed on the margins of their plantations for years, eating cane from the fields or food brought to them by friends and kin. … Other slaves ran away to the towns, where they could often blend into the population of urban slaves and free-coloreds, especially if they were trained in a craft. The towns were a preferred destination for women, who were a minority among maroons. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 188

Categorization

• DEFINE: Marronage defined and its many categories explained with concrete geographic detail.
• XREF: connects to: Marronage shaped many forms from brief evasion to permanent escape.; Marronage gave way to community-based resistance as plantation capitalism expanded; Marronage declined as plantation slavery rationalized and slave communities formed — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1433 (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Marronage shaped many forms from brief evasion to permanent escape.; Marronage gave way to community-based resistance as plantation capitalism expanded; Marronage declined as plantation slavery rationalized and slave communities formed — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1433 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Marronage declined as plantation slavery rationalized and slave communities formed #complicates (0.72) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1433