Abstract
ABSTRACT This article considers how maritime maroons used Atlantic networks of communication to determine which overseas locations to escape to, relying on African maritime techniques and skills as well as understanding of tropical wind patterns to escape using African-style dugout canoes, paddleboards/surfboards, and their swimming bodies to redefine their lives. Elaborating on the intellectual frameworks of Julius Scott and Epeli Hau‘ofa, this article also examines how captives’ layered African cultural, spiritual, and political meanings onto the ‘Greater Caribbean’ to transform it into a ‘sea of islands’, providing belonging and hope to captives’ exploited lives. Cultural understandings of the Caribbean and surrounding continents and African maritime expertise enabled maritime maroons to use seas to connect them to distant opportunities.
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