The many meanings of “maroon,” used to describe what happens to the Matt Damon character in ‘The Martian,’ include slaves, chestnuts and abandonment.

The relationship of the early Maroons to the enslaved Africans is further complicated by research showing that colonial records from the 1800s identified persons in Maroon communities a “slaves ...

Niomi Daley, the British hip-hop star better known as Ms Dynamite, travelled to her ancestral land Jamaica to make a documentary about slaves who fought back, as part of the BBC's season marking ...

Contrary to their bad reputation, swamps offered sanctuary for centuries to slaves who escaped hard labor and torture on plantations from Virginia to Brazil and the Caribbean.

“Maroon” has become the default name for a community of formerly escaped slaves, and as such, Maroon communities reach as far north as Quebec, and as distantly as Asia.

But the Maroon legacy in this western Jamaican village and three other runaway slave settlements remains controversial, because their peace treaty with the British obliged them to return new ...

Maroon is a generic term for runaway slaves. According to Melville Herskovits, “The Myth of the Negro Past,” the name maroon probably derived from the Spanish Cimarron meaning “wild” or ...

How do I look at myself? I did not see our foreparents as runaway slaves,” the maroon chief said. According to him, maroons and their descendants did not belong to any plantation.

Descendants of slaves have for centuries lived away from modern life. But development is about to intrude, unless they can fend it off.

This article is a quantitative analysis of data sets from 1810–20 related to Maroon “slaveholding” in the Proceedings of the Honourable House of Assembly Relative to the Maroons, which have been ...