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Resistance and Fugitivity on the Island of Saint-Domingue
On December 1, 1773, a 22-year-old enslaved man, about five-feet tall and originally from South Africa, was captured by French authorities in Petit-Goâve, on the island of Saint-Domingue, a French colony at the time. The captive had run away from the man who had enslaved him to become a maroon, or a fugitive from slavery. Upon his capture, when the jailer asked for his name, the man, who spoke no French, said likely the only word he...
Welcome to my blog! I am trying to be really intentional about where I spend my time these days: more time with family, reading, and creating ideas, and working on writing projects, and less time on social media/scrolling the internet. This blog is a part of that effort. Some of what I'll be writing here is stuff that didn't make it into my books, and some of what will be here might end up just as new thoughts I'm working out. Other times, I might talk about some of the aspects of my books...