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Maroon men in Suriname, picture taken between 1910 and 1935 Marronage was common in British, Dutch, and French Guiana, and today descendants of maroons account for about 15% of the current population of Suriname [ 90 ] and 22% in French Guiana. [ 91 ]
Jamaican Maroons descend from Africans who freed themselves from slavery in the Colony of Jamaica and established communities of free black people in the island's mountainous interior, primarily in the eastern parishes. Africans who were enslaved during Spanish rule over Jamaica (1493–1655) may have been the first to develop such refugee ...
The Windward Maroons fought the British on the east side of the island from their villages in the Blue Mountains of Portland. [3] The community raised animals, hunted, and grew crops. Maroons at Nanny Town and similar communities survived by sending traders to the nearby market towns to exchange food for weapons and cloth.
The Great Dismal Swamp maroons were people who inhabited the swamplands of the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia and North Carolina after escaping enslavement and their descendants. Although conditions were harsh, research suggests that several thousand lived there between the late 17th century and the 1860s.
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record from "Jamaica Assembly, The proceedings of the Governor and Assembly in regard to the maroon negroes" [with introductory account by Bryan Edwards] (London, 1796), facing title page.
Cudjoe, Codjoe or Captain Cudjoe (c. 1659 – 1744), [1] [2] sometimes spelled Cudjo [3] – corresponding to the Akan day name Kojo, Codjoe or Kwadwo – was a Maroon leader in Jamaica during the time of Nanny of the Maroons. In Twi, Cudjoe or Kojo is the name given to a boy born on a Monday. He has been described as "the greatest of the ...
Juan de Serras was one of the first Jamaican Maroon chiefs in the seventeenth century. His community was based primarily around Los Vermajales, and as a result the English called his group of Maroons the Karmahaly Maroons. It is likely that his Maroons are descended from escaped slaves Taino men and women. [1]
Surinamese Maroons (also Marrons, Businenge or Bushinengue, meaning black people of the forest) are the descendants of enslaved Africans that escaped from the plantations and settled in the inland of Suriname. The Surinamese Maroon culture is one of the best-preserved pieces of cultural heritage outside of Africa. Colonial warfare, land grabs ...