Overview of Maroon Communities Resistance during slavery is the process in which enslaved people, who were violently turned into objects, lay testament to their livelihood; in essence enslaved people who defied violent, terrifying, monstrous economies that enslaved them. (Economies of the political, social, libidinal, commercial, colonial, imperial and many more) The Europeans who captured human beings and then violently ripped their desires and wills from their bodies creating a new caste of slaves that functioned as objects in the realms of the world order. Black bodies that were violently enslaved by law, sentiment, white supremacy, colonization, citizens, Native Americans, and many more, all of which radiated anti-Blackness, categorizes the Black body as objects and perpetual slaves. There is a tension in the world of enslavement and development that turns people into objects and the objects claiming humanity. Putting concepts of resistance and claims to humanity within the context of our class, comparative slave rebellions, it is important to note that this essay will be focusing on the acts upon which enslaved people created and maintained Maroon colonies. By focusing on Maroon Colonies, we hope to articulate a form of resistance that established counter-histories of enslavement and insert in the historical archive the significance of former captives of the western world creating complicated communities of survival. Also we would like to capture the tension of how the people within Maroon colonies, complicate notions of objectivity verse humanity for the Anti-Black world order. The Maroon colonies and their functionality that is committed not only to survival but to life, in a world that renders Black people dead, can offer great insight to people who are enslaved today and want to lay claim to their livelihood. Please note that Maroon colonies may display an ultimate triumph within the framings of White Western-World paradigms, but Maroon colonies are merely just another act in which human beings laid claim to their humanity in the enslaved world order; information and intellect gained from this essay should not create a hierarchy of resistance. It is not the author’s intensions to glorify Maroon colonies, but Maroon colonies are instead just the focus of our study. We understand that triumph with a Eurocentric context cannot be applied to a Black subject in the Western world, for Black people just living and surviving day in and day out, is a marvel and the site of our overall class goal. Maroon colonies were one of the unique results of the enslavement of African people. They existed everywhere in South and North America as well as most of the Caribbean. The Maroon communities in Haiti, Jamaica, Brazil, America and the Caribbean played a critical role in the world order of enslavement, which resulted in liberation, emancipation, harsher slave codes and many more political and economical shifts.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:22:00 +0000
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