Two durable maroon societies formed in the Jamaican highlands.

Evidence

During the next eighty years, two major maroon societies were formed in the highlands of Jamaica. One, the Windward Maroons, settling in the eastern mountains, had as its nucleus the Spanish maroons and those who subsequently joined them from the English plantations and towns. The other, the Leeward Maroons of the west-central interior, came into being in 1673 after the first of the slave rebellions during the English period. In 1690, another major rebellion, beginning on the Sutton estate, added more than 200 refugees to the Leeward settlements complex. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 674

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

Related

• Jamaican maroon societies grew primarily through slave rebellions and escape (similarity 0.94)
• Jamaican maroons replicated African and Brazilian political structures. (similarity 0.86)
• Maroon communities appeared wherever slavery and refuge terrain coexisted. (similarity 0.83)
• Maroon growth came chiefly from slave rebellions and escapes. (similarity 0.82)
• Haitian maroon communities were smaller than Jamaica’s because coffee planting filled the mountains (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial states formally recognized maroon communities by treaty rather than destroying them (similarity 0.81)
• Maroon communities prefigured the Haitian revolution as a living challenge to colonial ideology (similarity 0.81)
• Blocked maroon refuges pushed Haitian slaves toward systemic revolution (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial authorities legitimized maroon communities via negotiated treaties. (similarity 0.80)
• Maroons were integral participants in the genesis of the Haitian Revolution (similarity 0.80)
• Maroon precedents proved that escaped slaves could defeat European armies (similarity 0.80)
• Suriname’s maroons were Afro-America’s most accomplished independent societies after Haiti (similarity 0.80)
• Jamaican rebels drew on the earlier marronage military tradition for armed revolt (similarity 0.80)
• Suriname held the hemisphere’s most developed independent maroon societies (similarity 0.80)
• Slave resistance through flight seeded lasting Black maroon communities (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Colonial powers negotiated treaties making maroons into slave-catching buffers #expands (0.70) — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 196