Marooners Site

Maroons and the Marooned: Runaways and Castaways in the Americas

The word "maroon" is derived from the Spanish word , which originally referred to domestic cattle that had escaped to the hills. By the 1530s, the term was applied to enslaved people who fled plantations and established independent settlements in geographically secluded regions. marooners

: Home to some of the most famous Maroon groups, who fought the British in two major wars. The First Maroon War (1728–1740) ended in treaties that granted the Maroons 2,500 acres of land and semi-autonomy in exchange for returning future runaways. Maroons and the Marooned: Runaways and Castaways in

The Marooners: Resistance, Autonomy, and the Legacy of Self-Liberation and the Legacy of Self-Liberation