The English term ‘Maroon’ deliberately erased Black-Creek alliance.

Evidence

English simply called them Maroons, flattening the Spanish to make them seem alone, abandoned, adrift— but they were bonded, side by side, Black and Red, in a blood-red hue— maroon. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 608

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in how origin stories and naming shape what counts as deviation vs. design.