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