| LC control no. | sh 85081396 |
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| Topical heading | Maroons |
| Variant(s) | Cimarrónes |
| See also | Fugitive slaves |
| Found in | Dismal freedom, 2022: ECIP summary (In the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina, thousands of maroons--people who had emancipated themselves from enslavement and settled beyond the reach of enslavers--established new lives of freedom in a landscape deemed worthless and inaccessible by whites) Encyclopedia of free Blacks and people of color in the Americas, 2012 (Maroons: One group of free people of color who were very important in many areas in the Americas were the maroons. The term maroon was used indiscriminately at the time for all runaway slaves, but modern usage reserves the term for slaves who formed organized communities on the outskirts of plantation colonies. The most prominent maroon communities were the quilombos of northeastern Brazil, the Bush Negroes of Surinam, and the Windward and Cockpit Country maroons of Jamaica; there were also maroon communities in the United States) Encyclopedia of Latin American history and culture, 2008 (Maroons (Cimarrónes): African fugitive slaves. Known variously as quilombos, mocambos, and palenques, Maroon settlements developed from the southern United States to South America) |
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