Marronage

Part of the maroon resistance network François organized in the mountains of Saint-Domingue

Broader resistance context; use carefully, since Vesey was a revolt/conspiracy figure, not a maroon leader

Escaped enslavement and spent eighteen years as a maroon, using his freedom of movement to organize resistance across the Northern Plain.

Operated underground as a fugitive from colonial justice after his condemnation in absentia, connecting the fugitive world to revolutionary conspiracy.

Escaped from the Papillon plantation in November 1787 and spent three years as a fugitive, building the networks across estates that would fuel the 1791 uprising.

A fugitive from colonial justice who escaped capture and was condemned in effigy; his movement between plantations as a seller of sacred objects exemplifies the political mobility of marronage.

broader practice and social formation of flight from slavery

His historiographical and anthropological work contextualizes marronage within the broader pattern of fugitive and counter-plantation resistance.

Her community and leadership are among the most documented examples of organized marronage in the Atlantic world.

Broader resistance comparison

Led one of the pre-revolutionary maroon bands that Fouchard and Eddins document as part of the long prehistory of organized fugitivity in Saint-Domingue.

Led one of the named, sustained maroon bands that Fouchard documents as part of the eighteenth-century prehistory of organized resistance in Saint-Domingue.

Represented the culmination of the Windward Maroon resistance tradition — the organized fugitivity that the 1739 treaty formally recognized and then transformed.

Maroons from Bahoruco under chief Mamzelle played a decisive role in the selective violence

Jerome and Telemaque were fugitives, and the conspiracy's reach across plantations was sustained by marronnage networks

Marronage - bridging marronage and revolution

Resistance tradition inherited from Taíno-African cooperation

Brazil had the largest and most famous maroon community in the Americas — Palmares.

Suriname's maroon communities — Saramaka, Ndyuka — won formal treaties with the Dutch colonial government.

African origins as a dimension of the marronnage phenomenon

Individual stories as the primary evidence base for understanding marronnage

Skilled trades shaped the patterns and possibilities of marronnage

Women's resistance as a dimension of the broader marronnage phenomenon

Petit marronage refers to temporary flight from plantations, as distinct from permanent grand marronage.

The database is the primary source for understanding marronnage in Saint-Domingue

Women bridged maroon camps to plantations

Escape as resistance

The broader framework of resistance

Tradition of resistance the revolution drew upon

The population most systematically targeted by patrols and pursuit

What maroons carried when they fled

The escape to freedom that created spaces for Vodou development