Celeste Winston is Assistant Professor of Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University.

“Through Celeste Winston’s examination of early Black communities from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as well as her study of late modern Black communities in the twentieth century, we learn vital lessons about the value of marronage for our understandings of slavery, resistance, liberation, freedom, race, capitalism, and geography. Imagining Black futures beyond slavery and a world without the police, Winston offers a wonderful treatise that will reverberate throughout geography, Black studies, American studies, history, political theory, and decolonial politics. How to Lose the Hounds is an absolutely marvelous book and a magnificent achievement!” - Neil Roberts, author of (Freedom as Marronage) “With its rich account of marronage in Montgomery County, Maryland, and beyond, Celeste Winston’s How to Lose the Hounds is a brilliant addition to the study of black flight, geographic transformations, and abolition. How to Lose the Hounds both succeeds as a rigorous study of maroon geographies, maroon justice and other maroon tactics and, importantly, insists that a careful understanding of ‘radical Black praxis of community’ is essential to the work toward police abolition.” - Simone Browne, author of (Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness)

• Acknowledgments  ixPrologue  xiiiIntroduction  11. Maroon Folklore as an Abolition Technology  212. The Fugitive Infrastructure of Maroon Geographies  373. Maroon Justice  654. Community beyond Policing  875. Maroon Geographies and the Paradox of Abolition Policy  109Epilogue: Abolition Future Folklore  129Notes  133References  139Index  159

Celeste Winston is Assistant Professor of Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University.

“Through Celeste Winston’s examination of early Black communities from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as well as her study of late modern Black communities in the twentieth century, we learn vital lessons about the value of marronage for our understandings of slavery, resistance, liberation, freedom, race, capitalism, and geography. Imagining Black futures beyond slavery and a world without the police, Winston offers a wonderful treatise that will reverberate throughout geography, Black studies, American studies, history, political theory, and decolonial politics. How to Lose the Hounds is an absolutely marvelous book and a magnificent achievement!” - Neil Roberts, author of (Freedom as Marronage) “With its rich account of marronage in Montgomery County, Maryland, and beyond, Celeste Winston’s How to Lose the Hounds is a brilliant addition to the study of black flight, geographic transformations, and abolition. How to Lose the Hounds both succeeds as a rigorous study of maroon geographies, maroon justice and other maroon tactics and, importantly, insists that a careful understanding of ‘radical Black praxis of community’ is essential to the work toward police abolition.” - Simone Browne, author of (Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness)

• Acknowledgments  ixPrologue  xiiiIntroduction  11. Maroon Folklore as an Abolition Technology  212. The Fugitive Infrastructure of Maroon Geographies  373. Maroon Justice  654. Community beyond Policing  875. Maroon Geographies and the Paradox of Abolition Policy  109Epilogue: Abolition Future Folklore  129Notes  133References  139Index  159

Celeste Winston is Assistant Professor of Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University.

“Through Celeste Winston’s examination of early Black communities from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as well as her study of late modern Black communities in the twentieth century, we learn vital lessons about the value of marronage for our understandings of slavery, resistance, liberation, freedom, race, capitalism, and geography. Imagining Black futures beyond slavery and a world without the police, Winston offers a wonderful treatise that will reverberate throughout geography, Black studies, American studies, history, political theory, and decolonial politics. How to Lose the Hounds is an absolutely marvelous book and a magnificent achievement!” - Neil Roberts, author of (Freedom as Marronage) “With its rich account of marronage in Montgomery County, Maryland, and beyond, Celeste Winston’s How to Lose the Hounds is a brilliant addition to the study of black flight, geographic transformations, and abolition. How to Lose the Hounds both succeeds as a rigorous study of maroon geographies, maroon justice and other maroon tactics and, importantly, insists that a careful understanding of ‘radical Black praxis of community’ is essential to the work toward police abolition.” - Simone Browne, author of (Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness)

• Acknowledgments  ixPrologue  xiiiIntroduction  11. Maroon Folklore as an Abolition Technology  212. The Fugitive Infrastructure of Maroon Geographies  373. Maroon Justice  654. Community beyond Policing  875. Maroon Geographies and the Paradox of Abolition Policy  109Epilogue: Abolition Future Folklore  129Notes  133References  139Index  159