Sylvia Wynter's unpublished manuscript, running past nine hundred pages and largely unread, is the subject. Thomas approaches it through the verb Césaire coined in his poem for René Depestre, marronner, and argues that the manuscript is itself an act of marooning. He lays out Wynter's tripartite scheme, in which creolization proceeds from adaptation towards integration, marronage from resistance towards separation, and indigenization from the contradiction of both towards liberation, and explains why she distrusts creolization as a stand-alone term for Caribbean cultural analysis. The essay tracks her early engagement with Marxism, her insistence that the enslaved suffered a double alienation as worker and as human being, and the first appearance of her later critique of Western bourgeois Man. Against the institutional domestication of Black studies, Thomas offers the manuscript as a blueprint for what Black intellectual work might still become outside the terms the academy sets.