I finished #grievers by #adriennemareeebrown and started #maroons. amb is consistently one of the most engaging and thought provoking writers I’ve read - everything I’ve read of hers has shifted my thinking and helped me see the world differently. This series is so rich and full of so much emotional depth. #amreading #bookstodon

#florida #desantis #maroons #solidarity #slavery #resistance #Africans #nativeamerica
It's all about the power of solidarity: Maroons "formed communities and,
oftentimes, plotted uprisings to liberate other Africans. They bonded with Native American communities. It was here they found allies and fortifications for their struggle."

Florida’s History of African Resistance | by Brian G (aka 'bumpyjonas') - he/him | Aug, 2023 | Medium
https://briangilmore.medium.com/floridas-history-of-african-resistance-624de7f4514b

QUEENSLANDER!!!

#SOO #QLDer #NSWblues #Maroons

(Wallpaper by @maseydesign)

Tyson Fury is ready to come off the back fence for the Maroons next week, or, at the very least, bring back the biff. #tysonfury #maroons #qld #queensland #stateoforigin @tysonfury https://www.instagram.com/p/Csr44WXKnDv/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

"The arrival of Europeans destroyed many such sites and wiped out much of the traditional knowledge they enshrined. But African slaves shipped by the Europeans sometimes brought their own traditions that survive to this day. In eastern Jamaica, the Windward Maroons — descendants of a slave uprising on the Caribbean island in the 17th century — have kept alive reverence for sacred groves in the forests of the Blue and John Crow Mountains."

https://e360.yale.edu/features/sacred-groves-religion-forests

#Jamaica
#Maroons

January 6 is the Accompong Maroons' New Year, which commemorates the signing of the peace treaty between the Maroons and the British, led by Queen Nanny's brother, Cudjoe, who was a Maroon leader. Today is also his birthday.

My paternal grandmother was proud of her Maroon heritage. So am I.

https://nationwideradiojm.com/culture-as-one-accompong-maroons-to-celebrate-285-years-of-freedom-next-week/

Jan. 6, 2021 Maroon Festival: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODzELoSDzyw

#Jamaica
#JamaicanCulture
#Maroons
#BlackFriday
#BlackJoy
#BlackMastodon

@blackmastodon@a.gup.pe
@BlackMastodon@chirp.social

https://archive.org/details/theycalledusbrigands

They Called Us Brigands: The Saga of St. Lucia's Freedom Fighters by Robert J. Devaux; Patrick A.B. Anthony

Topics
#brigandage, #brigands, #Ioüanalao, #Iyonola, #Hewanarau, #Hewanorra, #StLucia, #SaintLucia, #LesserAntilles, #Caribbean, #Martinique, #Guadeloupe, #maroonage, #maroons, #marronage, #blackchattelslavery, #war, #guerrillawarfare, #guerrillawar, #guerrillas, #Caribbeanhistory, #NègMawon, #britishimperialism, #frenchimperialism, #colonialism

The Black freedom fighters of the Lesser Antilles became known as “brigands” during the french revolution. Their fascinating story has never been written, perhaps because they have been dismissed as runaway slaves in a state of insurrection. The author believed that history has been unfair to the “brigands”. He felt indebted to them for sparing the life of his great-great-great-grandmother who was left in their care when the rest of the Devaux family fled to Martinique for safety. His gratitude motivated him to attempt to exonerate the “brigands” from the stigma of their history and present them in a different light, as freedom fighters caught up in a desperate situation.

https://archive.org/details/thedominicastory

The Dominica Story: A History of the Island by Lennox Honychurch

Topics
#Dominica, #Caribbean, #blackchattelslavery, #slavery, #history, #frenchcolonialism, #britishcolonialism, #Kalinago, #geography, #ecology, #folklore, #Waitukubuli, #maroons, #maroonwars, #marronage

The Dominica Story was first presented by Lennox Honychurch as a dramatised radio series tracing the origin and development of this often mysterious island from its volcanic formation up until its present. History has been interwoven with geography, ecology, folklore and social custom to produce a concise and colourful work which is not only vital to our knowledge of Dominica but to Caribbean history as a whole.

"Paradoxically, then, to minimize the negative impact of this contact with the larger society they had to create a web of connections to it in order to better protect their own interests, be they physical, mental, sentimental, familial, communal, or commercial. It was a complex, difficult balancing act."

-Silviane Diouf, Slavery's Exiles, p306
#maroons #slaveresistance