Maroon Communities in South Carolina: A Documentary Record

Maroon communities were small, secret encampments formed by runaway slaves, typically in isolated and defensible sections of wilderness. The phenomenon began as runaway slaves, unable to escape to safe havens in sympathetic colonies, opted instead to band together for survival near the sites of their former enslavement. In this first survey of documentary records of marronage in colonial and antebellum South Carolina, Timothy James Lockley offers students and scholars of history an opportunity to assess the unique features and trends of the maroon experience in the Palmetto State.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Lockley, Timothy J.
Published: 01/26/2009
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570037771
Pages: 142
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.70d