Maroons
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Africans in the Americas and islands of the Indian Ocean who escaped from slavery, through flight or manumission, and lived in independent settlements, were referred to as maroons in English, and as c
18th-century illustration of a Maroon
Maroons surprised by dogs (1893) (Brussels) by Louis Samain.
Maroons in Suriname in the 19th century
1801 aquatint of a Maroon raid on the Dromilly estate, Jamaica, during the Second Maroon War of 1795–1796.
Suriname
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Suriname, officially the Republic of Suriname, is a country in northern South America, also considered as part of the Caribbean and the West Indies. Situated slightly north of the equator, over 90% of
Maroons
…society. Communities sometimes developed Creole languages by mixing European tongues with African languages, creating languages like Saramaccan in Suriname. On other occasions, Maroons would adopt creolized variations of a local European language as a common tongue. Sometimes Maroons mixed with Indigenous…
Slave auction in Paramaribo, in 1831
Javanese indentured servants in Marienbourg plantation, c. 1930
Suriname in 1914
Presidential Palace of Suriname