Suriname’s maroons were Afro-America’s most accomplished independent societies after Haiti

Evidence

For some 300 years, the Guianas have been the classic setting for maroon communities. Though local maroons in French and British Guiana were wiped out by the end of the eighteenth century, the maroons of Suriname, known as “Bush Negroes,” have long been the Hemisphere’s largest maroon population. Except perhaps for Haiti, these have been the most highly developed independent societies and cultures in the history of Afro-America. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 688

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• XREF: This speaks to the reader’s core question about how Black autonomous polities formed, complementing Haitian revolutionary history as a peak of Black radicalism.