Petit Marronage

The phenomenon reveals both the endemic nature of resistance and the complex ways enslaved people navigated the plantation system. As Carolyn Fick argues, petit marronage "played an important role in the organization of the 1791 insurrection," providing mobility and communication networks that enabled revolutionary organizing. Yet the relationship between everyday resistance through petit marronage and revolutionary mobilization remains debated, illuminating fundamental questions about slave agency, the nature of resistance, and the origins of the Haitian Revolution.