13 Facts About Maroons

Maroons are descendants of Africans in the Americas who formed settlements away from slavery.

Maroons played an important role in the histories of Brazil, Suriname, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Cuba, and Jamaica.

Maroons created their own independent communities, which in some cases have survived for centuries, and until recently remained separate from mainstream society.

Maroons utilised exemplary guerrilla warfare skills to fight their European enemies.

Maroons traded with isolated white settlers and Native American communities.

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The Office of the Capture of Maroons reported that between 1797 and 1846, there were thousands of runaways living in these palenques.

Maroons joined the natives in their wars against the Spanish and hid with the rebel chieftain Enriquillo in the Bahoruco Mountains.

Some refugee enslaved people continued to join them through the decades until the abolition of slavery in 1838, but in the main, after the signing of the treaties of 1739 and 1740, the Maroons hunted runaway slaves in return for payment from the British colonial authorities.

In 2005, the music of the Moore Town Maroons was declared by UNESCO as a 'Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.

Maroons who escaped from the Thirteen Colonies and allied with Seminole Indians were one of the largest and most successful maroon communities in what is Florida due to more rights and freedoms granted by the Spanish Empire.

Maroons's maroons defeated the first expedition sent against them, killing their leader Juan Gomez.

The Dutch nailed severed hands of Maroons killed in the expedition to posts in the colony as a warning to other enslaved people.

Maroons was one of a number of free black people who joined the community of Ocoyta.