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Maroons

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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The name given to wild negro bands in Jamaica and Guiana; those in Jamaica left behind by the Spaniards on the conquest of the island by the English, 1655, escaped to the hills, and continued unsubdued till 1795; in Guiana they still maintain independent communities. To

eaman is to leave him alone on an uninhabited island, or adrift in a boat.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Maroons'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​m/maroons.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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