Secret Spaces: An Underground America

This essay traces the evolving scholarship on “marronage” and its implications in studying institutional slavery in North America. The term describes slave flight and the underground networks some enslaved peoples utilized to sustain informal freedom within the slaveholding South. The paper examines five case studies to explore methods and networks enslaved people used to hide from white slave owners. Maroon scholarship emphasizes the role escape played within rural and urban spaces in the South and the opportunities maroons exploited in underground, dynamic networks, all useful strategies for illuminating the lived experience of slavery in the antebellum South.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.A. (Master of Arts)

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

History (UMKC)

Grantor

University of Missouri--Kansas City

Year dc:date.issued

2023

Author dc:creator

• Fajen, Danielle Renee

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Osborn, Matthew Warner

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/10355/95115

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:mospace.umsystem.edu:10355/95115