Plan of the City of New Orleans and the Adjacent Plantations
This file appears in: Maroons in Antebellum New Orleans: Independence at Any Cost
This map provides a good idea of many areas where maroons would form communities outside the city of New Orleans, often on the outskirts of the city, in the Cypress Swamps, or hidden in the brush around nearby plantations.
This file appears in: Maroons in Antebellum New Orleans: Independence at Any Cost
Maroons in Antebellum New Orleans: Independence at Any Cost
The term ‘Maroon’ refers to enslaved people who ran away from slave owners and remained in the south to join or establish independent, hidden settlements. Maroons utilized the area’s topography to evade capture. While one might expect maroons to…