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4.32 AVERAGE
4.32 AVERAGE
adventurous
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
Incrediblely informative and interesting
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Great historical details - would recommend to anyone. Sometimes the narrative strayed into the technical academic history a bit more. These are stories that aren't uplifted in US education, and I'm glad I get to learn about them as an adult.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Trafficking, Murder, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail
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This book is an interesting and informative account of slave maroons in the United States. I tend to be interested in books that pertain to slavery, so I was pretty excited to read this book.
I had no prior knowledge of slave maroons, whether in the United States or other countries, when I began reading this book. The author does a really nice job of breaking things down for a reader who has never heard of the topic before without dumbing the subject down. There is a perfect amount of story and cold, hard facts in this book, making it easy to immerse into and enjoy.
By the end of the book I felt that I had really learned a lot. The author covers seemingly everything about slave maroons in the United States, without making things to repetitive. The chapters also tie nicely together, allowing all of the details to flow into a comprehensive storyline. There is a lot of information in this book but it is presented in an easy to understand manner.
The writing in this book is really well done. The author does a fantastic job of merging direct quotes smoothly into the story. I loved how, especially at the beginning of the book, each chapter starts with a direct quote describing roughly what the chapter would focus on. I thought that was a unique and pleasant touch to the story. I also enjoyed how the author managed to avoid excess description but managed to convey an informative story to the reader, which is the true mark of an excellent nonfiction book.
Overall, I really enjoyed this book. It was everything that I had expected and was looking for.
Received this book for review purposes via NetGalley.
This book is an interesting and informative account of slave maroons in the United States. I tend to be interested in books that pertain to slavery, so I was pretty excited to read this book.
I had no prior knowledge of slave maroons, whether in the United States or other countries, when I began reading this book. The author does a really nice job of breaking things down for a reader who has never heard of the topic before without dumbing the subject down. There is a perfect amount of story and cold, hard facts in this book, making it easy to immerse into and enjoy.
By the end of the book I felt that I had really learned a lot. The author covers seemingly everything about slave maroons in the United States, without making things to repetitive. The chapters also tie nicely together, allowing all of the details to flow into a comprehensive storyline. There is a lot of information in this book but it is presented in an easy to understand manner.
The writing in this book is really well done. The author does a fantastic job of merging direct quotes smoothly into the story. I loved how, especially at the beginning of the book, each chapter starts with a direct quote describing roughly what the chapter would focus on. I thought that was a unique and pleasant touch to the story. I also enjoyed how the author managed to avoid excess description but managed to convey an informative story to the reader, which is the true mark of an excellent nonfiction book.
Overall, I really enjoyed this book. It was everything that I had expected and was looking for.
Received this book for review purposes via NetGalley.
challenging
informative
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
“Their very existence is a particularly strong indictment of slavery, as they were willing to take the most drastic measures to get out of it.”
This stories of some of the courageous humans who, rather than live the property of another, chose life and death and an ephemeral home in the wilderness. Oftentimes they lived right under the noses of unsuspecting whites in caves, dugouts, and treehouses. At times a bit cumbersome and crawling for those not accustomed to reading historical works (aka me), but a fascinating peek into a virtually untold history of the Southeast in the US, as well as some of the roots of white anxiety about black people and how Native Americans were co-opted for the use of the capturing runaway slaves.
This stories of some of the courageous humans who, rather than live the property of another, chose life and death and an ephemeral home in the wilderness. Oftentimes they lived right under the noses of unsuspecting whites in caves, dugouts, and treehouses. At times a bit cumbersome and crawling for those not accustomed to reading historical works (aka me), but a fascinating peek into a virtually untold history of the Southeast in the US, as well as some of the roots of white anxiety about black people and how Native Americans were co-opted for the use of the capturing runaway slaves.
This book was recommended in Rest Is Resistance, and I’m glad to learn about the history of folks who left slavery grasp to make it on their own or in communities because they did not know that before. However, I did not find them writing or organization of this book to be very compelling and it did not make me want to finish the book
Unfortunately the library only had this book available as an audio book, and I am so much better at taking in concepts when I read vs. just listening. Nevertheless, this book was remarkable in large part because of the individual, human stories described. The stories of what drove enslaved people to seek refuge in the swamps and the woods just outside their plantations, the hardships they endured there, and how they were supported by those remaining on the plantations were all testaments to their strength of will and survival instincts. I also appreciated the idea of maroonage as a way to reject white plantation capitalism — there’s definitely something appealing in the idea of escaping into the woods and finding your own way to live outside of society’s strictures even today.
challenging
informative
inspiring
sad
slow-paced