Resistance and Intersectionality in Maroon Archaeology

Summary

We define Maroons by their overt resistance; theirs was one of the most extreme forms of anti-slavery opposition in the Americas and for many scholars is representative of the human desire to be free. However, defining Maroons by the act of marronage is isolating and limits attempts to study cultural continuities and ethnogenesis amongst the wider African Diaspora. This paper will look at the potential for, and advantages of, an intersectional maroon archaeology. Through the lens of marronage in Florida, and comparative analysis of three Florida sites - a slave cabin at Bulow Plantation in east-central Florida, an urban slave site at 71 Park Place in St. Augustine, and the Maroon settlement of Peliklikaha in central Florida, all of which date from the late Second Spanish Period - the paper will address the ability of intersectionality to both challenge our understanding of marronage and to build more complex comparisons of Maroon, slave, and free black societies in the colonial world.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Gender, Race, and Other Consequential Categories: Experiments in Intersectional Archaeology   •
• Society for American Archaeology 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (2017)

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Abstract Id(s): 16514