Freedom on the Horizon: Transmarine Marronage in the Lesser Antilles, 1824-1848 W/ Dr. Tayzhaun Glover

This presentation will explore my research on the seaborne fugitive practice of transmarine marronage in the Lesser Antilles during the overlapping processes of abolition in the British and French colonies in the 1830s and 40s.

It will focus on the fugitive men and women in the French island of Martinique, whose geopolitical knowledge of and consciousness around liberty in nearby British colonies in view, led to the construction of a Black geography of liberation that impacted structures of maritime surveillance and the politics of abolition and apprenticeship in the British and French colonies.