Slavery's Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons

The clearest sustained account of marronage in the mainland American South, arguing that scholars have minimized American maroons by expecting Jamaican- or Suriname-style treaty polities and missing smaller, more mobile forms of refuge. Diouf's key contribution is a spatial typology distinguishing borderland maroons (who stayed near plantations, using kin support and small trade) from hinterland maroons (who settled in swamps and forests farther away), connected by a wider maroon landscape. The book provides comparative language for thinking about marronage below the scale of open maroon wars — particularly useful for Saint-Domingue work.