Fugitive geographies (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jonathan R. Rodriguez.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Social Landscapes of Settler Colonialism in the Caribbean", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. From 1763 to 1834, Maroons opposed enslavement by establishing fugitive geographies of resistance in British colonial Dominica. Within the mountainous hinterlands, the Maroons created communities in areas deemed invaluable by state agents and agricultural enterprises. This study highlights how untamed ecologies and...