The maroons were Black people navigating the terror of chattel slavery by refusing to be a part of it. For close to two centuries, they leaped off slave ships as they pulled up to the shores of North America to never be seen again, they organized and left plantations for the caves and deep woods of the South, they created their own communities outside of the slavery, and they were not fugitives and instead, living in a Third Space, a temporary place of joy and freedom.
