... This chapter explores two local moments of flight from policing that occurred more than a century apart in the same location in Montgomery County. The subjects of focus are a group of maroons who confronted the county militia while traveling along a major county road in 1845 and a Black woman...

... This chapter addresses what might fill openings left in Black communities, in the absence of police. It outlines a model of maroon justice rooted in examples from Montgomery County's Black communities and situated in a broader discussion of restorative and transformative justice principles...

... This chapter draws lessons from maroon geographies for abolition policy: plans and actions undertaken to produce a world without police. In an ongoing context of anti-Black state violence, the chapter discusses how Black justice organizing can hold the state accountable outside of investments...