{"id":39418,"date":"2018-11-03T06:45:57","date_gmt":"2018-11-03T13:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=39418"},"modified":"2018-11-03T06:55:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T13:55:22","slug":"long-weekend-read-the-masterless-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/03\/long-weekend-read-the-masterless-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Long weekend read: The masterless people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/escaped-armed-slave-e1541252574884.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/escaped-armed-slave-800x467.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"467\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-39420\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/longreads.com\/2018\/10\/30\/the-masterless-people-pirates-maroons-and-the-struggle-to-live-free\/\" target=\"_blank\">The escaped slaves<\/a> of the early Americas (&#8220;Maroons&#8221; or <em>cimarrons<\/em>) and their struggle to live free at all cost.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, according to this piece, their determination to live without masters led to alliances with pirates.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t say how gloriously accurate this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Marooned-Jamestown-Shipwreck-History-Americas\/dp\/163286777X\/?tag=livifree07-20\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">book excerpt<\/a> is, but it&#8217;s a good read on a subject that deserves more attention. The book itself is a new history of the Jamestown colony, published a few days ago. But this excerpt is more about the slaves and pirates of the Caribbean in the days of Spanish conquest and early English adventurism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The escaped slaves of the early Americas (&#8220;Maroons&#8221; or cimarrons) and their struggle to live free at all cost. Sometimes, according to this piece, their determination to live without masters led to alliances with pirates. I can&#8217;t say how gloriously accurate this book excerpt is, but it&#8217;s a good read on a subject that deserves more attention. The book itself is a new history of the Jamestown colony, published a few days ago. But this excerpt is more about the slaves and pirates of the Caribbean in the days of Spanish conquest and early English adventurism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,18,28,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-mind-and-spirit","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-resistance","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39418"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39425,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39418\/revisions\/39425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}