Go around 20 miles up the Savannah River towards Ebenezer Creek and you’ll probably miss the patch of trees once known as the Bear Creek Fortress. The name might fool you a bit, the fortress wouldn’t ...

They are fugitives, the keepers of this online space. They are also historians, women of color, graduate students, and daughters. But here they are fugitives, in the sense that to be authentically ...

Scholar-activist William Santiago-Valles, associate professor of Africana studies at Western Michigan University, will give a talk titled The Importance of Marronage as a Concept in Diaspora Studies ...

The late Dr. Neville A. T. Hall, a great Caribbean historian and native Jamaican, was credited with coining the term “Grand Marronage or Maritime Maroons.” Some historians believe that Maroon Ridge ...

Within Afro-Jamaica religions, “science” is used as descriptor for traditional medicinal knowledge, ritual practices, and spirituality. Practitioners of Obeah, Myal, and other Afrocentric spiritual ...

“Today in Venezuela, the history and heritage of maroons are celebrated and continued as part of an ongoing revolutionary process.” Maroon Comix, pg. 25. African and Indigenous peoples across the ...

Neil Roberts Neil Roberts is the John T. McCoy Professor of Africana Studies, Faculty Affiliate in Political Science and Religion, and Associate Dean of the Faculty at Williams College. His latest ...