User:LumaNatic/Freedom colonies

Freedom colonies are the communities of people targeted by Western colonialism’s racialized human rights abuses resisting and creating the original “safe spaces ” to protect themselves from terrorism. An inceptive archetype of #TheResistance, these practices have existed since the very beginnings of Western Colonialism, its mass genocides, and its Atlantic Slave Trade.

The palenques in Colombia, the quilombos and mocambos in Brazil, maroons throughout the Caribbean, Latin America, the Great Dismal Swamp region of North America and Asia, “freedom countries” like Haiti, Liberia, Eritrea and Ethiopia, and the numerous "freedmen settlements " across the North American continent, as well as such other communities throughout Africa and Australia exist as testament to the resistance people targeted by white supremacy’s racism immediately practiced.

Over 550 of such communities have been identified in the US state of Texas alone by the Texas Freedom Colonies Project of Texas A&M University professor Andrea Roberts' pioneering research. She argues that this practice is far more common than has been previously reported, raising issues of historical accuracy, equity, diversity and neglect in the Western disciplines of urban planning, archeology, anthropology, journalism, education, and preservation. Many of these communities continue to be affected by issues of environmental racism, gentrification and lack of municipal support to this day.

=List of "freedom fighters"= People who escaped Western colonialism and helped to create, develop and sustain freedom colonies.

=List of freedom colonies= Places marked in italics are no longer populated. Places marked with * are absorbed into larger cities.

Liberia
The republic was founded as "a settlement of the American Colonization Society (ACS), who believed black people would face better chances for freedom and prosperity in Africa than in the United States."

Sierra Leone

 * Freetown

India

 * Siddi

Australia




Canada

 * North Buxton

Cuba

 * Viñales

Haiti
The republic was founded as the first freedom colony to become its own country in 1804.

Portland Parish

 * Charles Town
 * Moore Town

Saint Elizabeth Parish

 * Accompong

Saint James Parish

 * Trelawny Town

Saint Mary Parish

 * Scott’s Hall

Saint Thomas Parish

 * Nanny Town*

Chihuahua

 * Rarámuri/Sierra Tarahumara (Sierra Madre Occidental)

Veracruz

 * Yanga (San Lorenzo de los Negros)

Chiriquí

 * Limones

Panamá

 * Ronconcholon*

* [Unknown province]


 * Santiago del Principe
 * Santa la Real

Pinar del Río Province

 * Adjuntas

Alabama

 * Africatown
 * Hobson City

Arkansas

 * Blackville

California

 * Allensworth

Colorado

 * Dearfield

Florida

 * Adderleyville
 * Eatonville
 * Fort Mose
 * Lemon City/Little Haiti|
 * Negro Fort
 * Rosewood

Georgia

 * Johnsontown *
 * Sapelo Island

Illinois

 * Brooklyn
 * New Philadelphia

Kansas

 * Nicodemus

Kentucky

 * Estill's Station

Louisiana

 * Bobtown
 * Mossville
 * St. Maurice

Maine

 * Bailey Island
 * Harbor Island
 * Malaga Island

Maryland

 * Highland Beach
 * Sugarland
 * Unionville

Massachusetts

 * Parting Ways

Michigan

 * Idlewild

Mississippi

 * Davis Bend
 * Mound Bayou
 * Renova
 * Winstonville

Missouri

 * Hayti Heights
 * Kinloch
 * Meacham Park
 * Pennytown
 * Pinhook

Nebraska

 * DeWitty
 * Overton

New Hampshire

 * Coit Mountain

New Jersey

 * Marshalltown

New Mexico

 * Blackdom
 * Vado

New York

 * Sandy Ground
 * Seneca Village
 * Timbuctoo
 * Weeksville

North Carolina

 * Beech Bottoms
 * Hayti
 * James City
 * Little California
 * Princeville
 * Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony
 * Sedalia
 * Soul City
 * Long Ridge
 * Rock Hill
 * Petersburgh
 * Brooklyn
 * Old Shiloh
 * (New) Shiloh
 * Park View
 * Pearson Park

Oklahoma

 * Boley
 * Bookertee
 * Brooksville
 * Clearview
 * Grayson
 * IXL
 * Langston
 * Lima
 * Redbird
 * Rentiesville
 * Summit
 * Taft
 * Tatums
 * Tullahassee
 * Vernon
 * Greenwood, Tulsa

Pennsylvannia

 * Liberia (Mercer County)

South Carolina

 * Mitchelville

Tennessee

 * Free Hill
 * Hortense

Texas

 * Antioch Colony
 * Armstrong Colony
 * Barrett Station
 * Cedar Branch
 * Cologne
 * Cozy Corner
 * Deep Ellum
 * Fodice
 * Grant's Colony
 * Hall's Bluff
 * Independence Heights
 * Kendleton
 * Little Egypt
 * Pleasant Hill
 * Quakertown
 * Riceville
 * Saint Johns Colony
 * Shankleville
 * Tamina, Texas
 * Upshaw

Virginia

 * Grand Contraband Camp
 * Pocahontas Island
 * Titustown
 * Truxton

Alagoas

 * Palmares

Bolívar

 * San Basilio de Palenque

Maripasoula

 * Aluku (aka Boni)

Miskito Kingdom/Mosquito Coast

 * Miskito Sambu

Miskito Kingdom/Mosquito Coast

 * Tawira Miskito

Suriname

 * Saramaka
 * Paramacca (aka Paramaka)
 * Ndyuka (aka Aukan)
 * Kwinti
 * Matawai

Lara

 * Buria

Yaracuy

 * Nirgua