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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 evade capture. While one might expect maroons to…
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