There is much variety among maroon cultural groups because of differences in history, geography, African nationality, and the culture of indigenous people throughout the Western Hemisphere. Maroon settlements often possessed a clannish, outsider identity.

Coromantee, Jamaicans of African descent, Sierra Leone Creoles, Maroon people 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 .

2025年1月9日 · Maroon community, a group of formerly enslaved Africans and their descendants who gained their freedom by fleeing chattel enslavement and running to the safety and cover of the remote mountains or the dense overgrown tropical terrains near the plantations.

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.

2019年2月3日 · Maroon is a word that refers to African or African-American people who freed themselves from enslavement and lived in communities outside of plantations. The phenomenon is known globally wherever slavery occurs.

2019年7月24日 · Dr Shockley and Mr. LeNiles are quick to inform you that their intent is not to create a flood of tourists to Maroon communities. Instead they use film to describe the nuggets that can be learned from Maroons and incorporate these practices into current leadership models and societal practices.

The institution of slavery was threatened when large groups of Africans escaped to geographically secluded regions to form runaway slave communities, often referred to as maroon communities. Such communities were established throughout the …

Maroon are Africans who escaped from the slavery in the Americas and who mixed with the native Americans. The fabric of slavery faced a formidable challenge as significant numbers of Africans sought refuge in remote areas, crafting what became known as maroon communities.

2025年1月19日 · These unique Maroon communities stand as monumental testaments to African heritage and resistance against assimilation. Each Quilombo is a celebration of cultural diversity and a loud “NO” to the erasure of identity.

2023年5月26日 · Maroon refers to African people from various tribes who escaped from slavery and started their own communities out in the wilderness. Their descendants would also become known as Maroons, and...