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Maroon communities in America

Leonard Parkinson, Maroon Leader, Jamaica, 1796 By Jacqueline Hubbard, Esq., ASALH, President The English word “maroon” derives from the Spanish word cimarrón, which is based on an Arawakan root. Cimarrón initially referred to cattle that had escaped and living in the hills in Hispaniola. Soon the term referred to the enslaved indigenous population who escaped from […]

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