The spaceship is a heterotopic tool for Black resistance and time travel.

Foucault's notion of a heterotopia satisfies the following key principles (1) a constant across human groups and cultures (2) transformative by each generation each society and adaptable to history (3) capable of holding within a singular space, multiple places and spaces, (4) responsive to changes and breaks in time functions, (5) holding points of entry and departure" that both isolates them and makes them penetrable,” and (6) You're treating additional spaces, either illusory or Utopian in nature.(Footnote 4) If we consider maroon societies as more than the ideologies they produced, if we accept that they occupy both physical and intellectual space in the Caribbean history and lived experience, then we can perceive how they meet in these key principles and how they constitute the “heterotopia car excellence” As Foucault, imagine it imagines the ship: “a floating piece of space, A place without a place, that exists by itself, that is closed in on itself and at the same time given over into the Infinity of the sea” (footnote 5) As the ship gives into the sea, maroonage extends into the land, no matter how that space is settled by the colonizer or how much colonial forces deny the maroons’ Right into the ground on which they stand. And this defiance, maroon societies' identities position themselves as heterotopias of resistance, rejecting the denial of civility and sovereignty to Africans in the new world. Before and since the maroons, black people in the Atlantic have inland New world. Before and since the maroons, Black people in the Atlantic have negotiated their ability to carve out livable spaces, always in resistance or counterpoint to oppressive forces that deny them humanity, let alone their own space.