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By the 1820s, Me-no-Sen-You-no-Come housed between 50-60 runaways. The headmen of the community were escaped slaves named Warren and Forbes. Me-no-Sen-You-no-Come also conducted a thriving trade with slaves from the north coast, who exchanged their salt provisions with the runaways for their ground provisions.[5][6]

In October 1824, the colonial militias tried to destroy this community.[7] Some historians believe that the Maroons of Accompong Town successfully crushed this runaway community.[8][9]

However, recent research shows that these Maroons had limited success, because after they left Me-no-Sen-You-no-Come to return to Accompong Town, a number of the runaways returned to the village and rebuilt huts. The Accompong Maroons succeeded only in killing one man, and capturing two women and three children.[10]
smh the hostility of war over time I can just imagine gets to u especially with no proper healthy coping mechanisms, nothing to deal with PTSD. It could be a cause for the Maroons to see runaways as a nuesance & annoying & being in the way of them maintaining a peace between them and d colonials, so they could have gotten desensitized to the eradication of runaways, so it became a common thing to take up arms when ever they have knowledge of them in the areas or even go on the hunt for them. There could also be a reward system that the colonials set up as an incentive for the recapture of killing of a Afrikans( bounty Hunt)these r some of the many was they divide and conquer us even up until today.