"The plantation police or home-guard examining Negro passes on the levee road below New Orleans."

ID: 5097 ~ Source: Image retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2009630225/. ~ Creator: Frederic B. Schell. ~ Date: 1863.

This file appears in: Maroons in Antebellum New Orleans: Independence at Any Cost

Wood engraving.

This file appears in: Maroons in Antebellum New Orleans: Independence at Any Cost

Maroons in Antebellum New Orleans: Independence at Any Cost

By Jessica Beaver, Jessica Gillette, Kate Mason & Kathryn O'Dwyer, Editor

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…