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" Freedom as marronage / "
Neil Roberts.
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876089
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Roberts, Neil,1976-
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Freedom as marronage /\ Neil Roberts.
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| Publication Statement
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Chicago :: The University of Chicago Press,, 2015.
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xiii, 254 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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022612746X
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: 022620104X
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: 022620118X
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: 9780226127460
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: 9780226201047
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: 9780226201184
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9780226201184
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-237) and index.
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| Contents
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Part I: On slavery, agency, and freedom. Introduction ; The disavowal of slave agency -- Part II: Slave theorists of freedom. Comparative freedom and the flight from slavery ; Sovereign marronage and its others ; Sociogenic marronage in a slave revolution -- Part III: Freedom as marronage in late modernity. Marronage between past and future ; Afterword: Why marronage still matters.
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"What is the opposite of freedom? In Freedom as Marronage, Neil Roberts answers this question with definitive force: slavery, and from there he unveils powerful new insights on the human condition as it has been understood between these poles. Crucial to his investigation is the concept of marronage--a form of slave escape that was an important aspect of Caribbean and Latin American slave systems. Examining this overlooked phenomenon--one of action from slavery and toward freedom--he deepens our understanding of freedom itself and the origin of our political ideals. Roberts examines the liminal and transitional space of slave escape in order to develop a theory of freedom as marronage, which contends that freedom is fundamentally located within this space--that it is a form of perpetual flight. He engages a stunning variety of writers, including Hannah Arendt, W.E.B. Du Bois, Angela Davis, Frederick Douglass, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and the Rastafari, among others, to develop a compelling lens through which to interpret the quandaries of slavery, freedom, and politics that still confront us today. The result is a sophisticated, interdisciplinary work that unsettles the ways we think about freedom by always casting it in the light of its critical opposite."--Publisher's Web site.
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Fugitive slaves-- Caribbean Area.
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Liberty.
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Maroons.
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Abolitionismus
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Flucht
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Freiheit
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Fugitive slaves.
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Liberty.
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Maroons.
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Politische Theorie
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Sklavenaufstand
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Sklaverei
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Widerstand
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Caribbean Area.
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Karibik
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| Dewey Classification
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323.1196/0729
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F2191.B55R62 2015
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