Maroons and the Marooned: Runaways and Castaways in the Americas

by Joseph Kelly

Contributions by Richard Bodek, Claire P. Curtis, Joseph Kelly, Simon Lewis, Steve Mentz, J. Brent Morris, Peter Sands, Edward Shore, and James O'Neil Spady

Commonly, the word maroon refers to someone cast away on an island. One becomes marooned, usually, through a storm at sea or by a captain as a method of punishment. But the term originally denoted escaped slaves. Though being marooned came to be associated mostly with white European...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496827201
• ISBN13: 9781496827203
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"