Step 1: Donate to Sameer Project here (sugg. donation $30).

Step 2: Register for “Maroon Resistance, Past and Present” here.

In this workshop, scholar and activist Robert Connell will discuss the history and legacy of Maroon societies in the Caribbean as powerful forms of resistance to slavery in the Americas. Maroons were enslaved Africans and their descendents who escaped their captivity, either fleeing to places where slavery had been abolished or forming their own free societies. 

He will then draw on his own research and fieldwork to discuss how Caribbean Maroon societies in the 21st century continue their freedom struggle by fighting corporate resource extraction on their lands and state encroachment on their sovereignty. Toward the end of the workshop, participants will be invited to discuss the legacies of Maroon struggle and make connections to other present-day forms of Black and Indigenous struggles for autonomy and self-governance.

Robert Connell is a lecturer in Historical Studies at the University of Toronto and co-founder/producer of the End of Isolation Initiative. His publications can be found in the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology and Against the Current.