Freedom as Marronage : The University of Chicago Press : 9780226201047 : 022620104X : 20 Feb 2015 : What is the opposite of freedom? In Freedom as Marronage, Neil Roberts answers this question with definitive force: slavery, and from there he unveils powerful new insights on the human condition as it has been understood between these poles. Crucial to his investigation is the concept of marronage?a form of slave escape that was an important aspect of Caribbean and Latin American slave systems. Examining this overlooked phenomenon?one of action from slavery and toward freedom?he deepens our understanding of freedom itself and the origin of our political ideals.             Roberts examines the liminal and transitional space of slave escape in order to develop a theory of freedom as marronage, which contends that freedom is fundamentally located within this space?that it is a form of perpetual flight. He engages a stunning variety of writers, including Hannah Arendt, W. E. B. Du Bois, An