The Haitian Maroons: Liberty or Death

A forceful revisionist argument that marronage was not marginal to Haitian history but materially preparatory to it — that the mountains were where enslaved people developed the habits, routes, leadership structures, ritual cohesion, and armed experience that made later revolutionary war possible. Drawing on colonial archives, runaway advertisements, and place-memory, Fouchard documents the organized social worlds of maroon settlements, the connection between Vodou ritual gatherings and insurgent organization, and the long duree geography of maroon refuge from Le Maniel to Plymouth to the Bahoruco mountains.