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Maroons
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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A negre marron is defined by Littre as a fugitive slave who betakes himself to the woods; a similar definition of cimarron (apparently from cima, a mountain top) is given in the Dictionary of the Spanish Academy. The old English form of the word is symaron (see Hawkins's Voyage, § 68). The term "Maroons" is applied almost as a proper name to the descendants of those negroes in Jamaica who at the first English occupation in the 17th century fled to the mountains.
(See JAMAICA.)
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Maroons'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/m/maroons.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Maroons'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/m/maroons.html. 1910.
