Abstract:

This article is a critical reflection that explores the histories of water, marronage, and Black placemaking in the southern United States. It uses insights from history, ethnography, and cultural geography to connect the dual histories of racial slavery and environmental degradation in the Tidewater region of Virginia and the Mississippi Delta. This essay argues that, during slavery, swamps, bayous, rivers, and wetlands were geographies in which a fleeting Black commons could be sustained hidden away from the violence of the plantation. These same ecologies are now under extreme duress from coastal subsidence, the petrochemical industry, and climate change. This reflection argues that by charting the meaningful cultural, spiritual, intellectual, and practical insights of Black southern communities, an alternative ecological practice born of maroon imaginaries might be developed that could resist the degradation of these vulnerable southern ecologies.

摘要：

本文是对美国南部水，马龙岩和黑场所制作历史的批判性反思。它利用历史，人种学和文化地理学的见解，将弗吉尼亚的潮水地区和密西西比河三角洲的种族奴隶制​​和环境退化的双重历史联系起来。本文认为，在奴隶制时期，沼泽，Bayous，河流和湿地是可以维持短暂短暂的黑人公地的地方，远离了种植园的暴力。这些相同的生态现在正受到沿海沉降，石化工业和气候变化的极大威胁。这种反映认为，通过绘制黑人南部社区的有意义的文化，精神，知识和实践见解，