@CA_Politics_Huddle

July 7th Daily Bulletin 🧵 14/14

VIDEO INTERVIEW: Left of Black | A World Beyond Policing with Celeste Winston on Black Maroons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W0AwUXQjKc&list=PLBEF73A21DAA138AF&index=4&t=7s

#AbolishThePolice #marronage #maroons

In Marronage Lies the Search of a World

by Malcom Ferdinand: https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/article/14/1/182/294316

#reservations #silenciation #responsibility #emancipation #religions #whiteness #coloniality #modernity #separation #ecology #environmentalism #natives #indigènes #autochtones #maroon #marronage #MalcomFerdinand #AndreasMalm #Malm #wilderness #nature #decolonial #GreenSpaces #Maroons #colonization #imaginaries #systemicRacism #lynching #BLM #BlackLivesMatter #BlackMastodon #plantation #plantationism #agroForestry #structuralRacism #decolonialRead #longRead #gardening #Antilles #Caribbean #environmentalJustice

#Douarnenez #douarnenez2024
Palabre #quilombos #marronage : lutte communautaire pour l'autoconstruction, l'auto-organisation, l'entraide

Maria Sokoro : "Mes ancêtres étaient des gens intelligents, avec des technologies avancées, qui ont été enlevés pour effectuer des travaux manuels ... Ils se sont enfuis pour fonder des micro-sociétés libres, qui ont perduré depuis le XVIe siècle ... Un quilombo c'est un territoire, c'est-à-dire pas seulement une surface de terre mais un ensemble avec des rivières, des lieux sacrés, des gens, des cultures, où on continue à résister."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quilombo
#histoire #esclavage #colonisation #bresil

A common tactic of anti-anarchist debate trolls is to demand examples of successful anarchist or non-state societies, their point being apparently that in the putative real world these would invariably become Mad Max or Somalia. Facts won't convince the aggressively ignorant, of course, but examples aren't hard to find. Just for instance maroons -- escaped slaves who established communities outside of state control -- in the Americas from the 16th century on are really interesting in this context and there's a ton of literature -- search "maroon" on libgen. I'm currently reading Daniel Sayers on marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp -- straddling the Virginia/North Carolina border -- from 1607-1860, which is fascinating. Here's a quote about one such community, maybe anarchist, maybe not, but definitely non-state and definitely persistent.

_______________

Life among scissioners and their communities was as minimally alienating as one can imagine—but, more important, perhaps as minimally alienating as any people have ever managed to achieve in the modern world. These were not communes that lasted a decade or so but rather communities and metacommunities that persisted across several generations, even if they did change during that long period.

The archaeological residues of this long-vanished mode of communitization at one site in particular, referred to as the nameless site, have yielded unassailable direct evidence, and much more additional indirect evidence, for a Diasporic community of individuals who followed rules of their own making and acceptance; who maintained community organization and coherence by generating custom and tradition; who labored for themselves and their fellow scissioners; and who existed as beings possessed of true consciousness, in the Marxian sense of truthful or accurate comprehension of the world around them derived from critical awareness of its real social conditions.

_______________

http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=2CC9C4BD690D8CF9568796BD8E240CE9

#Anarchy #Anarchism #Slavery #Virginia #NorthCarolina #GreatDismalSwamp #Maroons #Marronage

@litstudies. I just got these pretty flyers from #CambridgeUniversityPress. One is for a monograph I wrote; one is for an essay collection I edited and includes some extraordinary work by #MarkGoble, #BobLevine, and #StefanieSobelle, to name a few (there are many more). Both consider representations of #time in #US #literature. You'll find essays on #poet #RichardSiken, #Shaker dancing, #marronage, and much more. There is a 20% discount, which brings the cost to ~23.00.

A 🧵 about my paper. Through the sacrament of #confession, I try to reconstruct #enslaved agency in the #EarlyModern 🇫🇷 #Caribbean & show that slaves were attentive to tensions between #Church & State.

#Confession was an opportunity to interact with a recognized authority (priests) under the seal of secrecy & away from the vigilance of plantation staff.
Slaves used silence & loquacity as strategies in dealing with the priests.

And what if #sins trespassed into legal #crimes & elicited a punishment beyond spiritual atonement?

A 1777 Reglèment envisaged public penance for #marronage, poisoning & abortion. Selected slaves would be appointed vergers, wear a surplice & a cassock & monitor the church doors & the arrangement of people inside it.

For #missionaries: Reglèment→obedience.

But #enslaved #Africans may have seen it as a brake to planters’ violence, & a way to shape a sense of shared identity by co-identifying “sinners” & co-enacting punishment.

https://tinyurl.com/4bycb4p8

https://archive.org/details/theycalledusbrigands

They Called Us Brigands: The Saga of St. Lucia's Freedom Fighters by Robert J. Devaux; Patrick A.B. Anthony

Topics
#brigandage, #brigands, #Ioüanalao, #Iyonola, #Hewanarau, #Hewanorra, #StLucia, #SaintLucia, #LesserAntilles, #Caribbean, #Martinique, #Guadeloupe, #maroonage, #maroons, #marronage, #blackchattelslavery, #war, #guerrillawarfare, #guerrillawar, #guerrillas, #Caribbeanhistory, #NègMawon, #britishimperialism, #frenchimperialism, #colonialism

The Black freedom fighters of the Lesser Antilles became known as “brigands” during the french revolution. Their fascinating story has never been written, perhaps because they have been dismissed as runaway slaves in a state of insurrection. The author believed that history has been unfair to the “brigands”. He felt indebted to them for sparing the life of his great-great-great-grandmother who was left in their care when the rest of the Devaux family fled to Martinique for safety. His gratitude motivated him to attempt to exonerate the “brigands” from the stigma of their history and present them in a different light, as freedom fighters caught up in a desperate situation.

https://archive.org/details/thedominicastory

The Dominica Story: A History of the Island by Lennox Honychurch

Topics
#Dominica, #Caribbean, #blackchattelslavery, #slavery, #history, #frenchcolonialism, #britishcolonialism, #Kalinago, #geography, #ecology, #folklore, #Waitukubuli, #maroons, #maroonwars, #marronage

The Dominica Story was first presented by Lennox Honychurch as a dramatised radio series tracing the origin and development of this often mysterious island from its volcanic formation up until its present. History has been interwoven with geography, ecology, folklore and social custom to produce a concise and colourful work which is not only vital to our knowledge of Dominica but to Caribbean history as a whole.