Maroons

Maroons
An 18th-century illustration of a Maroon
Regions with significant populations
North and South America, Jamaica, Mauritius
Languages
Creole languages
Religion
African diasporic religions
Related ethnic groups
Maroon peoples

Black Seminoles, Bushinengue, Jamaican Maroons, Mauritian Maroons, Kalungas, Machapunga, Palenqueros, Quilombola
Historical groups

Cimarron people
Great Dismal Swamp maroons
Ndyuka man bringing the body of a child before a shaman. Suriname, 1955

Maroons are descendants of Africans in the Americas and Islands of the Indian Ocean who escaped from slavery, through flight or manumission, and formed their own settlements. They often mixed with Indigenous peoples, eventually evolving into separate creole cultures[1] such as the Garifuna and the Mascogos.

Maroons surprised by dogs (1893) (Brussels) by Louis Samain.
  1. ^ Diouf, Sylviane A. (2016). Slavery's Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons. New York: NYU. pp. 81, 171–177, 215, 309. ISBN 9780814724491. OCLC 864551110.