Maroon settlements were destroyed or quarantined to protect enslaved labor

Evidence

Maroon settlements like those of Jamaica, Cuba, and North America had to be destroyed, or failing that, quarantined. They could not be allowed to contaminate a labor upon which so much depended. Frequently—too frequently for the masters, however, it did not seem to matter. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 703

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the regime’s strategic function of marronage: settlements represented contagion threatening the labor system.