Predicting Maroon Refuge Locations
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Carper,R. G. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2008
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Current Anthropology
- Journal Title Details:
- 49(3) : 359
- ISBN:
- 00113204
- Subject Term:
- Caribbean area, History, Blacks, Slavery, Maroons, Slaves, fugitive, and Archaeology
- Notes:
- The article reports on archaeologists search for archaeological sites of the Maroons, runaway slaves of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in West Indies. Archaeologists claim that Maroons have the ability to become invisible. The efficacy of their tactic has made them elusive to slavery. It states that the constant threat of recapture and castigation on the island of Saint Croix led them to hide in remote, defensible spots that were hard to see. Moreover, archaeologists face difficulties in predicting the locations of the Maroons because they are do not leave any evidence of their presence.