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As most of the plantations existed in the eastern part of the country, near the Commewijne River and Marowijne River, the Marronage (lit. ' running away ') took place along the river borders and sometimes across the borders of French Guiana. By 1740, the maroons had formed clans and felt strong enough to challenge the Dutch colonists, forcing ...
The word "maroon" is derived via French from the Spanish word cimarrón, meaning "wild" or "untamed".This word usually referred to runaways, castaways, or the shipwrecked; those marooned probably would never return.
Marooned by Howard Pyle. Marooning is the intentional act of abandoning someone in an uninhabited area, such as a desert island, or more generally (usually in passive voice) to be marooned is to be in a place from which one cannot escape. [1]
However, recent research has shown that free black people in Jamaica were able to escape from bondage and through marronage were able to self-liberate themselves and form their own villages, which thrived for years, and sometimes decades. The leader of one of those unofficial maroon communities was an escaped slave named Ancoma.
The Great Dismal Swamp maroons were people who inhabited the swamplands of the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia and North Carolina after escaping enslavement.Although conditions were harsh, research suggests that thousands lived there between about 1700 and the 1860s.
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Perhaps the most dangerous method of liberation from enslavement was the Afro-Caribbean devised system of "marronage", in which people escaped from plantations to establish (or join) armed, independent, forest and mountain communities known as Maroons, where they were led by individuals such as Nanny of the Maroons. [5]
The Great Dismal Swamp located in Virginia and North Carolina, was one prominent place where these slaves would go for this marronage, along with other long-term refugees. [44] The location was strategic as the swamp was dense and could hide its refugees from the plantation owners, militia, and dogs.