Suriname held the hemisphere’s most developed independent maroon societies

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

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• ADDENDUM: Marronage as self-organized community formation parallels the infrastructure/sacrifice themes of the reader’s essays on how marginal groups build durable social order.

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• Suriname’s maroons were Afro-America’s most accomplished independent societies after Haiti (similarity 0.95)
• Guiana maroon communities sustained continuous independent marronage for centuries (similarity 0.89)
• Suriname’s maroon tribes formed the oldest continuous self-governing maroon societies (similarity 0.88)
• Seventeenth-century maroon struggles came to fruition among Suriname’s African peoples (similarity 0.82)
• Maroon communities appeared wherever slavery and refuge terrain coexisted. (similarity 0.80)
• Two durable maroon societies formed in the Jamaican highlands. (similarity 0.80)
• Jamaican maroon societies grew primarily through slave rebellions and escape (similarity 0.78)