Gonzalez, Johnhenry — Maroon Nation: A History of Revolutionary Haiti (2019) Source Information

Gonzalez, Johnhenry — Maroon Nation: A History of Revolutionary Haiti (2019) Source Information Author: Johnhenry Gonzalez Full Title: Maroon Nation: A History of Revolutionary Haiti Publisher: Yale University Press (Yale Agrarian Studies Series, James C. Scott, series editor) Year: 2019 ISBN: 978-0-300-23008-6 Type: Secondary Source — post-independence political economy, agrarian history, marronage theory Location in Vault: research/secondary-sources/ Status Text extracted: Yes Review pass: Audited and integrated (2026-03-31) Chapter notes: gonzalez maroon nation ch notes Overview Maroon Nation reframes post-independence Haitian history by arguing that the Haitian Revolution did not end in 1804 — it continued for another four decades as a protracted conflict between the new Haitian state and the laboring population over land and the plantation economy. Gonzalez's central thesis is that the Haitian peasantry constituted a "maroon nation": a population that, in direct continuity with the runaway slave tradition of colonial Saint-Domingue, persistently fled forced labor, squatted on mountain land, built unauthorized communities, and evaded state control.