{"title":"Black Liberation","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"intimate-direct-democracy","title":"Intimate Direct Democracy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Modibo Kadalie\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished by On Our Own Authority! Publishing, 2022\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e186 pages, paperback\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, many African people who were enslaved in North America emancipated themselves and fled into vast swamplands and across colonial borders, beyond the reach of oppressive settler-colonialism and the institution of slavery. On the peripheries of empire, these freedom-seeking \"maroons\" established their own autonomous, ethnically diverse, and intimately democratic communities of resistance. In this new volume, Modibo Kadalie offers a critical reexamination of the history and historiography surrounding two sites of African maroonage: The Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia and North Carolina; and Fort Mose in Florida. In these communities of refuge, deep-rooted directly democratic social movements emanating from West Africa converged with those of indigenous North Americans. 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In this remarkable work, the authors explore the social and economic violence visited upon Africans in Guyana from the period of enslavement to emancipation and the self-organized establishment of collectivized villages by Africans after emancipation—fourteen years before the Communist Manifesto was written!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis newly expanded 50th anniversary edition includes the complete original text, Eusi Kwayana’s afterword to the 1998 Guyana edition, a new foreword by Modibo Kadalie, and several appendices of insightful supplemental material, including an essay on the 1763 Berbice Revolution, two recent speeches by Eusi Kwayana, and a fascinating transcribed conversation between Eusi Kwayana and William C. 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