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The most notable Maroon societies were the Negro Fort and Fort Mose in the Florida Leeward and Windward communities in Jamaica, Le Maniel in Haiti, and Veracruz in Mexico. Smaller outlier communities—also called Maroon bands, consisting of 15–20 fugitives—existed in St. Croix in the Danish West Indies and in Jamaica. They were Marronberg, or Maroon Hole, and Spanish Town, respectively.
Maroon communities emerged throughout North America wherever humans were enslaved, dominated, oppressed, and robbed of their dignity and freedom. No matter the location, they included forests, traps, mountains, and deep ditches. Mark Lause cited outlier communities that existed in the 1600s such as the Great Dismal Swamp on the Virginia and North Carolina border and those along the coastal marshlands in South Carolina and Georgia. These smaller outliers generally included numerous long caves, used to protect their members.
-Charlotte E. Forté-Parnell, Maroon and Outlier Communities from The Sage Encyclopedia of African Cultural Heritage in North America
Langston, Menzi Maseko and Kwesi3 Comments-
hmm, interesting he didnt mention qilombo
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This article only discusses North America and the Caribbean.
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Ah okay, that makes sense — asante for the context
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