Reviews
Provide[s] an Atlantic World perspective on the black experience during this period.
--CHOICE
Millett has breathed new life into a piece of Florida history that was a national topic of discussion in the 19th century but lost its purchase in the Jim Crow milieu of the 20th.
--Florida Times-Union
A hallmark achievement in the discussion of slavery and abolition in the Atlantic… The Maroons of Prospect Bluff is phenomenal and a welcome addition to our understanding of maroon and Atlantic culture.
--Journal of Transatlantic Studies
Millett is able to address a plethora of questions that have plagued historians of slavery regarding conceptions of freedom.
--Florida Historical Quarterly
By placing this understudied event in a controversial interpretive framework, Nathaniel Millett has written a valuable book that historians of the African diaspora and the Atlantic world will enjoy grappling with.
--Hispanic American Historical Review
Millett has lifted the curtain of obscurity that fell over this remarkable Maroon community. His impeccably comprehensive study has provided an in-depth perspective on the humanity of African freedom seekers and their advocates absent from the majority of historical texts.
--Journal of American History
Provides readers with valuable new information and insights into the complex international intrigues and rich racial and ethnic tapestry that provided the back drop for the formation of this new maroon society.
--American Historical Review
Scholars of North American slavery and slave resistance are indebted to Millett for this fine study....Here, richly documented and compellingly argued, is that arrest story of North American slavery: a detailed analysis of successful communal slave resistance.
--Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
The Maroons of Prospect Bluff, in short, is highly stimulating and worth reading and assigning.
--Itinerario Review
An illuminating and long-overdue treatment of Prospect Bluff that contextualizes the settlement through the lens of an Atlantic borderland experience playing out in the whirlwind of military conquests between varying European powers--Britain and Spain--and other groups in the North American continent and Caribbean--white Americans, groups of Native Americans, and people of African descent. . . . Millet delivers a careful exploration of the history, culture, and politics of the Prospect Bluff settlers, following them as they scatter to other maroon colonies like Angola near Tampa, struggle through the Seminole Wars and the annexation of Florida by the United States, and eventually move to Andros Island in the Bahamas.
--Louisiana History