Sylviane A. Diouf is an award-winning historian of the African Diaspora. She is the author of Slavery's Exiles, Servants of Allah, and Dreams of Africa in Alabama. Diouf is a Curator at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library.
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The forgotten stories of America maroons—wilderness settlers evading discovery after escaping slavery Over more than two centuries men, women, and children escaped from slavery to make the Southern wilderness their home. They hid in the mount... SEE MORE