Go around 20 miles up the Savannah River towards Ebenezer Creek and you’ll probably miss the patch of trees once known as the Bear Creek Fortress. The name might fool you a bit, the fortress wouldn’t ...

They are fugitives, the keepers of this online space. They are also historians, women of color, graduate students, and daughters. But here they are fugitives, in the sense that to be authentically ...

Scholar-activist William Santiago-Valles, associate professor of Africana studies at Western Michigan University, will give a talk titled The Importance of Marronage as a Concept in Diaspora Studies ...

This proposed contribution to the special issue of ILWCH offers a theoretical re-consideration of the Liberian project. If, as is commonly supposed in its historiography and across contemporary ...

“Today in Venezuela, the history and heritage of maroons are celebrated and continued as part of an ongoing revolutionary process.” Maroon Comix, pg. 25. African and Indigenous peoples across the ...

Within Afro-Jamaica religions, “science” is used as descriptor for traditional medicinal knowledge, ritual practices, and spirituality. Practitioners of Obeah, Myal, and other Afrocentric spiritual ...