Autonomous Resistance to Slavery and Colonialism

Russell Maroon Shoatz (August 23, 1943 – December 17, 2021) was a veteran of the Black Liberation movement serving sentences for an attack on a police station in Philadelphia in 1970. These two essays, "The real resistance to slavery in North America" and "The Dragon and the Hydra: a historical study of organizational methods" are valuable for our endeavors because they break out of the white workerist histories in which anarchy is too often confined, and tell stories of the multiracial Maroon communes of the American swamps and other territories in the colonized world. ,These reprints recognize the insurrectionary nature of what Shoatz documented.

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