Maroon communities appeared wherever slavery and refuge terrain coexisted.

Evidence

During the era of slavery, communities of maroons, or escaped slaves, sprang up throughout the New World. Wherever there were slave plantations, there was resistance in the form of runaways and slave revolts; and wherever mountains, swamps, or forests permitted the escaped slaves to gather, they formed communities. These ranged in size from Palmarres, in Brazil, with over ten thousand people, to the handfulls of runaways who hid on the fringes of plantations in the American South. While most… were destroyed … a few could not be reduced or even contained. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 672

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Defines marronage itself and its pan-American scope, a key frame for the Black radical tradition.

Related

• Slave resistance through flight seeded lasting Black maroon communities (similarity 0.84)
• Jamaican maroon societies grew primarily through slave rebellions and escape (similarity 0.84)
• Maroon settlements were self-made spaces of freedom and resistance, not mere hideouts (similarity 0.83)
• Maroon growth came chiefly from slave rebellions and escapes. (similarity 0.83)
• Two durable maroon societies formed in the Jamaican highlands. (similarity 0.83)
• Maroon communities prefigured the Haitian revolution as a living challenge to colonial ideology (similarity 0.82)
• Maroon precedents proved that escaped slaves could defeat European armies (similarity 0.81)
• Blocked maroon refuges forced slaves to attack the plantation system directly (similarity 0.81)
• Blocked maroon refuges pushed Haitian slaves toward systemic revolution (similarity 0.81)
• Suriname held the hemisphere’s most developed independent maroon societies (similarity 0.80)
• Marronage declined as plantation slavery rationalized and slave communities formed (similarity 0.80)
• Marronage gave way to communal Black radicalism nurtured and expressed in mass resistance (similarity 0.80)
• Haitian maroon communities were smaller than Jamaica’s because coffee planting filled the mountains (similarity 0.80)
• Suriname’s rain forests sheltered a distinct form of maroon resistance. (similarity 0.80)
• Anti-maroon campaigns armed free people of color and sparked demands for inclusion (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Two durable maroon societies formed in the Jamaican highlands. #exemplifies (0.80) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 674
• Suriname’s rain forests sheltered a distinct form of maroon resistance. #exemplifies (0.80) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 692
• Maroon growth came chiefly from slave rebellions and escapes. #corroborates (0.70) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 675
• Maroons were integral participants in the genesis of the Haitian Revolution #exemplifies (0.60) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 733
• Runaway slave communities remained independent for nearly two centuries #expands (0.60) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1960
• Limited maroon refuge forced would-be escapees toward direct revolution #complicates (0.50)