MAROONS

Maroons (from the word marronage or American/Spanish cimarrón: "fugitive, runaway", lit. "living on mountaintops"; from Spanish cima: "top, summit") were runaway slaves in the West Indies, Central America, South America, and North America, who formed independent settlements together. They were at least partly Akan people.^[1]

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• 1 History
• 2 Culture
  • 2.1 Akan names
• 3 Geographical distribution
  • 3.1 North America
    • 3.1.1 Florida
    • 3.1.2 Nova Scotia
    • 3.1.3 Mexico
  • 3.2 Central America
    • 3.2.1 Panama
    • 3.2.2 Honduras, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua
  • 3.3 Caribbean islands
    • 3.3.1 Jamaica
    • 3.3.2 Haïti
    • 3.3.3 Others
  • 3.4 South America
    • 3.4.1 French Guiana and Suriname
    • 3.4.2 Brazil