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 ...

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 ...

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 ...