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Maroons
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Throughout the Americas, African slaves would escape from the plantations on which they were forced to work. These people known to the Spanish as Cimarrones from the Spanish word "maron," meaning fierce and from the Spanish term for wild cattle. To the French they were known as Marrons, a term angl ....
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....ring the eighteenth century in Jamaica; one in 1760 spread to several estates, and sixty Europeans and four hundred Negroes were killed before order was restored. Even so, there was no great retaliation on the part of the slaves when it is recalled that they greatly outnumbered the Europeans on all estates and in all islands. It can only be concluded that the system of arbitrary discipline, if not outright viciousness, succeeded in quelling the spirit of most slaves who, knowing their lack of .... |
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