Suriname’s maroon tribes formed the oldest continuous self-governing maroon societies

Evidence

Finally, in the British and French Guianas and Dutch Suriname, there occurred the most extraordinary instances of marronage, the formation of what in the literature is rightly referred to as the “Bush Negro tribes.” These people—the Saramaka, Matawai, Kwinti, and the Djuka, Aluku, and Paramaka—constitute the most enduring and oldest examples of continuous marronage. They are a people who, in the instance of Suriname, could be until quite recently in this century described as constituting “a state within a state.” Their history, too, begins in the seventeenth century, somewhere near its second quarter. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 687

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• DEFINE: Defines the Bush Negro tribes and their ‘state within a state’ status.

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