The words "Maroon" and "Seminole" share the same origin in the Spanish
word cimarrón, meaning "wild" or "untamed".
Maroon communities where mostly African refugees who escaped the
brutality of slavery on plantations and joined refugee in remote areas,
like the Cuban mountains.
Beginning in the late 17th century, Jamaican Maroons fought British
colonists to a draw and eventually signed treaties in the 18th century
that effectively freed them over 50 years before the abolition of the
slave trade in 1807.
word cimarrón, meaning "wild" or "untamed".
Maroon communities where mostly African refugees who escaped the
brutality of slavery on plantations and joined refugee in remote areas,
like the Cuban mountains.
Beginning in the late 17th century, Jamaican Maroons fought British
colonists to a draw and eventually signed treaties in the 18th century
that effectively freed them over 50 years before the abolition of the
slave trade in 1807.
