Go Deeper

• The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C.L.R. James - The foundational text on Caribbean resistance to colonial slavery - the intellectual and historical context for understanding what Nanny and the Maroons were fighting against and what they built.
• Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America by Ira Berlin - A landmark history of slavery in the Atlantic world that illuminates the broader system of plantation slavery that Maroon communities like Nanny's were resisting and escaping.