Colonial states formally recognized maroon communities by treaty rather than destroying them

Evidence

In one case they opted for negotiation. In 1785 the colonial administrations of both the Spanish and French colonies signed a treaty with a group of more than 100 maroons living in frontier region of Bahoruco. The treaty granted them amnesty and liberty in return for their promise to pursue any new runaways in the area and hand them over to the authorities. … But in pursuing this policy Saint- Domingue’s administrators were simply following the lead of those in Jamaica and Suriname who had signed such treaties with maroon groups in the 1730s as a way of ending long wars and creating a buffer against continuing escapes. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 196

Categorization

• XREF: Colonial co-optation of runaway slave communities into policing their own parallels other empire strategies of using one subjugated group against another.
• QUESTION: Did these maroon treaty communities become a shield against revolution or a reservoir for it once rebellion came?