First-Time: The Historical Vision of an African American People

An ethnohistory showing how the Saramaka maroon people of Suriname preserved the memory of escape, war, and the 1762 peace as a living historical vision transmitted through oral tradition, territorial memory, and ritual. Price demonstrates that marronage, when it survives long enough, becomes pedagogy and political common sense rather than dead folklore — making the book a major comparative source for understanding how maroon memory functioned as a social institution, relevant to any analysis of Haitian marronage in the longer term.