![]() ![]() It argues that Blake anticipates recent critical revisions of our understanding of marronage, especially in the US context, not only by disarticulating marronage from insurrection and direct resistance but also by revealing that marronage was in fact an ever-changing, multidimensional project and process of individual and collective resistance existing in the liminal space between the codified poles of “freedom” and “enslavement,” one that cannot simply be reduced to a process of self-exile, autonomous community formation, or a mere waypoint on the path to potential revolt. ![]() ![]() ![]() This essay examines the quest for freedom in Martin Delany’s Blake or, The Huts of America (1859, 1861-62) through the lens of marronage, arguing for Henry Blake as a maroon figure and suggesting that Blake-by virtue of being unfinished, the insurrection never yet begun-allows us a window into freedom in (perpetual) process, into an assemblage of self- and community-affirming resistant practices that are constellated around marronage. ![]()
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