A: When the American Revolution began, maroon communities became larger and they became stronger. And it's important in the context of the American Revolution, because we tend to think only in ...

Up and down the Americas, ex-slaves and indigenous peoples fashioned hybrid settlements known as maroon communities, after the Spanish cimarrón, or runaway. Largely conducted out of sight of ...

Newly imported African slaves fled South Carolina to establish maroon communities in Florida in the late 1600s, a tradition that was continued by American-born fugitives from South Carolina and ...

The Creative Caribbean project, a collaborative initiative by UNESCO, CARICOM, and the University of the West Indies, with ...

He led his people to form one of the two maroon communities which was named after his brother “Accompong” (from the Akan name Acheampong) It was Captain Cudjoe who signed a treaty with the ...

The incoming slate ran on a platform of developing different forms of coverage, incorporating more multimedia in reporting, ...

Jamaica’s Maroon community has proposed the creation of a new institute dedicated to researching, documenting, and ...