American Maroon

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Part of the reason for the massive size of Palmares was due to its location in Brazil — at the median point between the Atlantic Ocean and Guinea, an important area of the African slave trade. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Thoden and van Wetering, Wilhelmina (2004), In the Shadow of the Oracle: Religion as Politics in a Suriname Maroon Society, Long Grove, Illinois: Waveland Press. As the maroons threatened Spanish commerce and trade, Spanish officials began to fear a maroon takeover of the island. When representatives of the French East India Company landed on the island in 1715 they also had to face attacks by the Mauritian maroons.

Arawak lineages ( Taíno people represented within haplogroups A and Kalinago people represented within haplogroups C) can also be found in this area. Similar maroon communities developed on islands across the Caribbean, such as those of the Garifuna people on Saint Vincent. Despite the same spelling, the meaning of 'reddish brown' for maroon did not appear until the late 1700s, perhaps influenced by the idea of maroon peoples.History [ edit ] Colonial era [ edit ] 1801 aquatint of a maroon raid on the Dromilly estate, Jamaica, during the Second Maroon War of 1795–1796.

In 1782, a French official in the region estimated there were more than 2,000 Maroons in the vicinity of Berbice, Demerara, and Essequibo.Other Afro-Mexican communities descended from people who escaped slavery are found in Veracruz and in Northern Mexico; some of the later communities were populated by people who escaped slavery in the United States via the Southern Underground Railroad. However, it was this quote ‘Freedom is not Free’ engraved into the black granite that reminded us of why we wish to serve and the values we want to uphold. A chassis mounted fairing for incredibly stable handling also provides class-leading wind protection.

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