Slavery's Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons by Sylviane A. Diouf

Slavery's Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons

Sylviane A. Diouf

403 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Over more than two centuries men, women, and children escaped from slavery to make the Southern wilderness their home. They hid in the mountains of Virginia and the low swamps of South Carolina; they stayed in the neighborhood or paddled their way...

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Moods

informative 100%
inspiring 50%
challenging 25%
dark 25%
emotional 25%
reflective 25%
sad 25%
tense 25%

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slow 75%
medium 25%

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4.44

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