It becomes marooned in english. Now, what is interesting also is that even though they use those words as meaning in the kind of runaway, then it became really useful for people who said so in but in the United States maroon was a word for large marooned community in jamaica. And even United States maroons were called runaways, complete or outliers. These are normally when we think of runaway slaves we think of people coming up to the north getting to canada. But youre talking to people who establish communities in the south . Yes. So communities also individuals who remain in the south and decided to leave an autonomous way in the woods and the swamps. How did you get interested in this subject . Because its a very interesting and unusual one, but not that many people written about in the United States. So how did you get into a . After community, i didnt see stuff i wanted to really read books. Ive been reading a lot about the maroons in jamaica, in brazil, and i was looking for information on those. I wanted to know who they were, what they were doing but i couldnt find anything. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. Booktv is on facebook and twitter. Like and follow was for book industry news, booktv schedule updates, behind the scene looks at author events and interact with authors during Live Television programming. Here are a few posts from this past week. All of us on twitter at booktv, and like us on facebook, facebook. Com booktv for more news about the world of publishing and whats happening on booktv. You are watching booktv on cspan2. Heres our primetime lineup for tonight. That all happens tonight on cspan2s booktv. Booktv spoke with scholars at the hoover institution, a Public Policy think tank in Stanford University to find out what they are reading. Senior fellow Michael Mccaul the risley stepped down as abuse ambassador to russia is currently reading the shaw. If theres another institution whose reading list you would like to hear, email us at booktv. Org. The 2013 guggenheimlehrman prize in military history worth 50,000 was awarded on march 17, 2014, in new york city. Finalist for the price read selections from the books prior to the award winner being announced. You can watch this event next on booktv. Good afternoon. My name is josiah