Black Geographies, White Anxieties: Maroons, Population Control, and Resource Competition in the Antebellum US South.

The article explores the history of marronage, the maroon communities of former slaves during the Antebellum Period in the Southern U.S. Topics discussed include the link between marronage and the 1831 rebellion led by a slave named Nat Turner in Virginia, the way proslavery Southerners applied the economic theories presented by British economists Thomas Malthus and David Ricardo in response to marronage, and the preferred residence of maroons in uncultivated regions to elude slavecatchers.