We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor: it must be demanded by the oppressed. - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Letters from Birmingham Jail
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishment the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my goal
-Invictus by William Ernest Hinckley
The current Big Lie in revisionist history is that enslaved people enjoyed slavery and that white people gave them their freedom. The truth is that enslaved people fought to gain their freedom from the minute they were enslaved. Maroon communities existed throughout the Diaspora in many places including Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba, , Puerto Rico, Belize, Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador, Brazil, Suriname, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Louisiana, Florida, Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, and Alabama.
In this class, learners will first conduct research on a self -selected maroon village or nation, who against all odds, regained and maintained their identity, community, traditions, destiny, and cultural continuity for decades and centuries; and then apply their learnings about their research subject's self-determined strategies to some aspect of their personal and profession lives.
Primary texts:
The Ra-surrection of the Truth from the Chains of Falsehood by Dr. W. Joye Hardiman
Maroon Societies: Rebel Slave Communities in the America edited by Richard Price
Sheroes of the Haitian Revolution by Bayyinah Bello
Registration
This course is for students accepted into the Tacoma program