The Complete Series Index
Every series. Every article. Every chapter. The full Maroon Histories archive in one navigation hub. Three series. Twenty-five articles. Over one hundred thousand words of scholarship tracing the legal lineage of Maroon and Caribbean sovereignty from ancient Babylon to the present day.
The Architecture of Control
Nine chapters tracing the legal lineage of imperial power from ancient Babylon through Rome through the Papal Bulls through the Atlantic slave trade through modern border control. The foundational series. Read it first to understand everything that follows.
How the Law of the Sea Became the Law of Your Life
Chapter OneBefore Babylon — The Ancient Sovereigns
Chapter TwoThe Hammurabi Descent
Chapter ThreeRome, Mare Nostrum and the Imperial Legal Machine
Chapter FourThe Papal Bulls and the Doctrine of Discovery
Chapter FiveMaritime Law as Colonial Weapon
Chapter SixThe Maroon Response
Chapter SevenTreaties and Sovereignty
Chapter Eight — FinalFrom Sea to Land — Modern Border Control
We Were Already Here
Six parts on the peoples who inhabited the Americas before the invasion, survived it, resisted it, and built the cultural and political traditions that are the living heritage of the Caribbean today. The Moors, the Taíno, the Garifuna, the Maroons of Jamaica, Queen Nanny, and the prophetic tradition of Garvey and Selassie.
The Strawman Doctrine
Capitis Diminutio Maxima — the birth certificate, the strawman, and the architecture of modern slavery. A nine-part epistle examining how the legal architecture documented in the Architecture of Control evolved into the modern administrative state. The most comprehensive treatment of this subject anywhere. Introduction and Part I are free for everyone.
Capitis Diminutio Maxima — Series Overview
Introduction — FreeHow Your Name Became Cargo
Part I — FreeCapitis Diminutio Maxima — The Roman Origin
Part II — SubscribeThe Cestui Que Vie Act of 1666
Part III — SubscribeThe Birth Certificate as Cargo Manifest
Part IV — SubscribeThe SSN, TRN, NI Number as Your CUSIP
Part V — SubscribeHJR-192 and the 1933 Bankruptcy
Part VI — SubscribeThe Joinder — How You Signed Yourself In
Part VII — SubscribeThe Moorish, Maroon and Sovereign Counter-Arguments
Part VIII — SubscribeUCC-1 and the Secured Party Creditor
Part IX — FinalWhat Living Free Actually Means
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